Wikipedia
Sea urchins are a model organism for "developmental biology"
fertilization video
fertilization animation (not great but okay)
in lab video (not much detail)
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.
