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oocyte

In medicine, an immature ovum. Only a fraction of the oocytes produced in the ovary survive until puberty and not all of these undergo meiosis to become an ovum that can be fertilized by a sperm.



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A Steinhausia-like infection in the ovocytes of Sydney rock oysters Saccostrea commercialis.
1 Fertilization and Subsequent Phenomena Fertilization may be conceptualized as a consequence of the injury caused by cell penetration into another cell- a phenomenon that leads to a breakdown of the ovocyte cortex with granule burst, subcortical cytoplasmatic rearrangement and deep changes in metabolic/ respiratory pathways.
 
 
 
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