Sexual reproduction in animals and plants [electronic resource] / Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue, Megumi Iwano, editors.
2014
QP251
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Title
Sexual reproduction in animals and plants [electronic resource] / Hitoshi Sawada, Naokazu Inoue, Megumi Iwano, editors.
Meeting Name
International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants (2012 : Nagoya, Japan)
ISBN
9784431545897 electronic book
4431545891 electronic book
9784431545880
4431545891 electronic book
9784431545880
Published
Tokyo : SpringerOpen, 2014.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 480 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number
10.1007/978-4-431-54589-7 doi
Call Number
QP251
Dewey Decimal Classification
571.8
Summary
This book contains the proceedings of the International Symposium on the Mechanisms of Sexual Reproduction in Animals and Plants, where many plant and animal reproductive biologists gathered to discuss their recent progress in investigating the shared mechanisms and factors involved in sexual reproduction. This now is the first book that reviews recent progress in almost all fields of plant and animal fertilization. It was recently reported that the self-sterile mechanism of a hermaphroditic marine invertebrate (ascidian) is very similar to the self-incompatibility system in flowering plants. It was also found that a male factor expressed in the sperm cells of flowering plants is involved in gamete fusion not only of plants but also of animals and parasites. These discoveries have led to the consideration that the core mechanisms or factors involved in sexual reproduction may be shared by animals, plants and unicellular organisms. This valuable book is highly useful for reproductive biologists as well as for biological scientists outside this field in understanding the current progress of reproductive biology.
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Includes index.
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed February 11, 2014).
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Sawada, H. (Hitoshi), 1954-, editor of compilation.
Inoue, Naokazu, editor of compilation.
Iwano, Megumi, editor of compilation.
Inoue, Naokazu, editor of compilation.
Iwano, Megumi, editor of compilation.
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Springer Open
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