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  • Title: Differentiation of the vitelline coat and the polarized site of sperm entrance in the egg of Unio elongatulus (Mollusca, Bivalvia).
    Author: Focarelli R, Rosa D, Rosati F.
    Journal: J Exp Zool; 1990 Apr; 254(1):88-96. PubMed ID: 2348166.
    Abstract:
    We studied the differentiation of the polarized site of sperm entrance in the egg of a freshwater bivalve, Unio elongatulus. As previously shown, in this egg model the property of sperm recognition and binding is restricted to a region characterized by a wrinkled surface which surrounds a truncated cone or crater region, at the vegetal pole of the egg. The crater is formed during oogenesis at a site opposite the oocyte attachment to the ovarian wall. It first appears as a small bleb, and later detaches, leaving in the oocyte an open narrow process filled with an orderly array of microtubules. Here the vitelline coat differentiates from the rest of the oocyte. The role of the microtubules in the formation of the region and the differential distribution of the vitelline coat components is discussed. The synthesis during development of fucosyl containing glycoproteins and their presence in an electrophoretic pattern of isolated vitelline coats were also studied using Lotus tetragonolobus (LTA) conjugated with fluorescein and peroxidase.
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