Abstract
Summary
Eggs of the grass frog manifest various developmental abnormalities after fertilization with sperm previously exposed for 3 hours to 0.04% colchicine solutions. Experimental evidence is presented to show that this is not due to direct diffusion of colchicine into the egg from the sperm water nor to irreversible alteration of anything in the sperm prior to fertilization.
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