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7.3 Blocks to Polyspermy

• On Multipolar Mitosis as a Means of Analysis of the Cell Nucleus - Theodor Boveri, 1902 Über mehrpolige Mitosen als Mittel zur Analzyse des Zellkerns. Verhandlungen der physicalisch-medizinischen Gesselschaft zu Würzburg. Neu Folge 35: 67-90.
  Translated by Salome Gluecksohn-Waelsch
• Theodor Boveri: The Life of a Great Biologist 1862-1915 - Fritz Baltzer, 1967
  Boveri's student, Fritz Baltzer, wrote about the context in which Boveri made his discoveries about polyspermy and chromosomal individuality.
• The Fertilization Reaction in Echinarachnius Parma - E. E. Just, 1919 Cortical Response of the Egg to Insemination
  Here, Just describes the two blocks to polyspermy.