zygote: References & Edit History
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Add new Web site: UH Pressbooks - Human Biology - Fertilization and Zygote Formation. | Jul 23, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: Digital Commons at Loyola Marymount University and Loyola Law School - Zygote Zeitgeist: Legal Complexities in the Expanding Practice of Embryo Donation (PDF). | Mar 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: eScholarship - Plant zygote development: recent insights and applications to clonal seeds. | Oct 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Heredity - Lost in the zygote: the dilution of paternal mtDNA upon fertilization. | Sep 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Plasmogamic Paternal Contributions to Early Zygotic Development in Flowering Plants. | Jul 08, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Johnson County Community College - ScholarSpace @ JCCC - Defining the Biological Identity of the Unborn: A Scientific Approach to The Human Zygote. | Nov 21, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Medicine LibreTexts - Cleavage of the Zygote. | Jul 07, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Verywell Health - What is a Zygote? | Sep 06, 2022 | ||
| Added information on zygote splitting in the development of identical twins. | Feb 19, 2020 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Feb 18, 2020 | ||
| Added a photo showing a zygote of the roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides. | Dec 23, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Maryland Medical Center - Fetal development. | Jun 23, 2011 | ||
| Add new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Cell specialisation. | Jun 23, 2011 | ||
| New article added. | Jul 13, 2009 |
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