The developmental entity of a fertilized chicken egg (ZYGOTE). The developmental process begins about 24 h before the egg is laid at the BLASTODISC, a small whitish spot on the surface of the EGG YOLK. After 21 days of incubation, the embryo is fully developed before hatching.
    

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Exercitationes de generatione animalium. Quibus accedunt quaedam de partu: de membranis ac humoribus uteri: & de conceptione / Autore Guilielmo Harveo.

Ueber die Entwickelung des Eierstockes beim Huhne und seine Entwickelung während der ersten Perioden seiner Existenz / von J. Borsenkow.

Development of the chick heart / by María Victoria de la Cruz, Simon Muñoz-Armas, and Luis Muñoz-Castellanos.

The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus / by Alice Miles Woodruff and Ernest W. Goodpasture.

Lillie's development of the chick : an introduction to embryology / rev. by Howard L. Hamilton ; advisory editor, B.H. Willier.

Über die Stellung des Hühnchens im Entwicklungsplan / von A. Rauber.

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Ueber die Entwickelung des Eierstockes beim Huhne und seine Entwickelung während der ersten Perioden seiner Existenz / von J. Borsenkow.

Development of the chick heart / by María Victoria de la Cruz, Simon Muñoz-Armas, and Luis Muñoz-Castellanos.

The susceptibility of the chorio-allantoic membrane of chick embryos to infection with the fowl-pox virus / by Alice Miles Woodruff and Ernest W. Goodpasture.

Lillie's development of the chick : an introduction to embryology / rev. by Howard L. Hamilton ; advisory editor, B.H. Willier.

Über die Stellung des Hühnchens im Entwicklungsplan / von A. Rauber.