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New experimental data refuting the idea of a fast electrical block to polyspermy in sea urchin eggs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2019

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Brian Dale*
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Centre for Assisted Fertilization, Naples, Italy
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Address for correspondence: Brian Dale. Centre for Assisted Fertilization, Naples, Italy
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Zygote , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , August 2019 , pp. 193 - 194
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