Sea Urchin Fertilization Lab

Wikipedia

Sea urchins are a model organism for "developmental biology"

fertilization video

fertilization animation (not great but okay)

in lab video

Our Lab Experience

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References

A Guide to the Sea Urchin Reproductive Cycle and Staging Sea Urchin Gonad Samples

Vacquier, Victor D. (2011), Laboratory on Sea Urchin Fertilization. Molecular Reproduction & Development, 78: pp.553–564.

Ettensohn, Charles A. (2017), Sea Urchins as a Model System for Studying Embryonic Development. Reference Module in Biomedical Sciences, Elsevier Inc.

Purification Paper

Thomas Deits, Martha Farrance, Erica S. Kay, Laurie Medill, Eric E. Turner, Peggy J. Weidman, and Bennett M. Shapiro., (1984),Purification and Properties of Ovoperoxidase, the Enzyme Responsible for Hardening the Fertilization Membrane of the Sea Urchin Egg. J. Biol. Chem, 259 (21), pp. 13525-13533.

Related Reference

Human Phagocytes Employ the Myeloperoxidase-Hydrogen Peroxide System to Synthesize Dityrosine, Trityrosine, Pulcherosine, and Isodityrosine by a Tyrosyl Radical-dependent Pathway.