Artificial parthenogenesis and fertilization / by Jacques Loeb... Originally tr. from the German by W. O. Redman King... supplemented and revised by the author.

  • Jacques Loeb
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[1913]
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Credit: Artificial parthenogenesis and fertilization / by Jacques Loeb... Originally tr. from the German by W. O. Redman King... supplemented and revised by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CONTENTS PAGE I. Introductory Remarks ------ 1 II. Some Remarks on the Morphology of Development - 17 III. Fertilization and Oxidation ----- 25 IV. Hydrolytic Processes in the Germination of Oil- containing Seeds -------39 V. Some Earlier Observations on Natural Partheno- geiiesis in Insects -------43 VI. On the History of the Earlier Experiments on Artificial Parthenogenesis - -- -- --47 VII. The First Experiments upon the Osmotic Activa- tion of the Unfertilized Egg of the Sea-Urchin (Arbacia) - - ------57 \TII. The Improved Method of Artificial Parthenogenesis in the Sea-Urchin Egg ------ 65 IX. The Effect of Artificial Membrane Formation on the Egg --------- 73 X. Further Examples of the Prolongation of the Life of the Egg by Lack of Oxygen ----- 85 XI. Further Experiments on the Action of the Hypertonie Solution after Membrane Formation - - - 95 XII. The Effect of the Agencies of Artificial Partheno- genesis upon the Oxidations. The Cytological Changes in the Parthenogenetic Egg - - - 113 XIII. The Relative Physiological Efficiency of Various Isos- motic Solutions ------- 127 XIV. Chemical Constitution and Relative Physiological Efficiency of Acids ------ 133 XV. The Activation of the Unfertilized Egg by Bases - 147