The zona pellucida: A coat of many color
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Paul M. Wassarman
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Article
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1987
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## The zona pellucida is an extracellular coat that surrounds all mammalian eggs. It is a porous matrix of interconnected filaments that are assembled from glycoproteins synthesized and secreted by growing oocytes. The zona pellucida is responsible both for species-specific binding of sperm to unfer