Egg coats of the rock shrimpRhynchocinet
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Palomino, Jaime ;Moreno, Ricardo D. ;Bustamante, Eva ;Messen, Lucy ;Dupré, Enriq
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract The aim of the present work was to characterize structurally and ultrastructurally the egg coats of the rock shrimp, __Rhynchocinetes typus__, and to describe their functional roles during fertilization. Oocytes fixed directly from the ovary, have a total diameter of 549 µm and are cove