The micropylar collar was prominent and continuous and presented a conspicuous micropylar disc (diameter: 20.4 [micro]m, thickness: 7.96 [micro]m; Figure 1C) at its centre; and the
micropyle (diameter: 2.4 [micro]m) was observed in the centre of this disc (Figure 1D).
[16.] Yanagimachi R (1957) Some properties of the sperm-activating factor in the
micropyle area of the herring egg.
The integument reached the top of the nucellus and formed a
micropyle through continuous cell division.
(B) Scanning electron microscopy photograph of an Atala egg showing highly sculptured chorion ultrastructure and
micropyle. Bar measures 200 pm.
This hypothesis is supported by BEAMENT (1948, 1952), who reported the role of the
micropyle in transporting insecticides to the interior of the egg, since the chorion is an impermeable structure for toxic substances.
The importance of the duration of sperm motility is in the time required by the sperm to penetrate the oocyte
micropyle and for fertilization to occur.
In form, the seed is oval and much closer towards the
micropyle [40].
On its way, the pollen tube penetrates the stigmatic surface, is then guided through the stigma and style and placenta, grows onto the funiculus, and finally enters the
micropyle of the ovule for double fertilization (Figures 1 and 3A).
Butterfly eggs These eggs can be things of beauty, with ribbing and fluting pointing the eye toward a little opening called the
micropyle. Through the
micropyle, sperm enter and fertilize a typically oval or round egg as it is being deposited on a leaf.
Morphological information did not extend to the
micropyle, ridge pattern or filaments on the ova or eggs.
With this strategy, spermatozoa are stored in the
micropyle of eggs within the ovary after gamete transfer to the female and eggs are not fertilized until immersed in seawater.