E. B. Wilson stated in the preface to the third edition of The Cell in Development and Heredity: 'Every writer must treat the subject from the standpoint given by those fields of wnrk in which he is most at home; and at best he can only try to indicate a few of the points of contact between those fields and others'. The aim of this book is to provide an overview of structural and functional aspects of fertiliz ation processes in a manner that would be helpful not only to specialists in the fiel ...