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vitelline envelope

A glycoprotein-based structure that lies outside the plasma membrane and surrounds the egg before fertilization. [GOC:dph, ISBN:0878932437]
National Institutes of Health

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2008
2008
Bindin genes of the Pacific oyster Crassostrea gigas.
1995
1995
Control of cell volume in oocytes and eggs from Xenopus laevis.
Review
1991
Review
1991
Fertilization-induced changes in the vitelline envelope of echinoderm and amphibian eggs: self-assembly of an extracellular matrix.
The surface of the unfertilized sea urchin egg is covered by the vitelline layer (VL), a fibrous extracellular matrix that… 
Highly Cited
1990
Highly Cited
1990
Species-specific sequences of abalone lysin, the sperm protein that creates a hole in the egg envelope.
Abalone eggs are contained within a rigid, elevated vitelline envelope through which the sperm must pass before reaching the egg… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Sperm glycosidase as a plausible mediator of sperm binding to the vitelline envelope in Ascidians.
In the Ascidian, Ciona intestinalis, sperm alpha-L-fucosidase is concluded to be a recognition protein for the sperm receptor in… 
Highly Cited
1983
Highly Cited
1983
Oogenesis in Fundulus heteroclitus. III. Vitellogenesis.
Several physiological parameters associated with oocyte growth (vitellogenesis) in the killifish, Fundulus heteroclitus, are… 
1982
1982
Sea urchin fertilization envelope: uncoupling of cortical granule exocytosis from envelope assembly and isolation of an envelope intermediate from Strongylocentrotus purpuratus embryos.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
The cortical granule reaction in living eggs of the toad, Xenopus laevis.
1974
1974
On the contents of the cortical granules from Xenopus laevis eggs.
Highly Cited
1974
Highly Cited
1974
Agglutination of jelly coat and cortical granule components and the block to polyspermy in the amphibian Xenopus laevis.
A block to polyspermy in amphibians is established at fertilization by the conversion of the vitelline envelope to the… 
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