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History
In 1784, Spallanzani established the need of interaction between the female's ovum and male's semen to form a zygote. Oscar Hertwig (1876), in Germany, described the fusion of nuclei of spermatozoa and of ova from sea urchin.<ref>Birkhead, T.R. & Montgomerie, R. (2009). Three centuries of sperm research, pp 1-42 in: Birkhead, T. R., Hosken, D. J. & Pitnick, S. Sperm Biology: An Evolutionary Perspective. Elsevier/Academic Press, Amsterdam. 642 pp., [1].</ref>
Fertilisation sections
Intro History Fertilization in plants Fertilisation in animals Fertilization in fungi Fertilization in protists Fertilisation and genetic recombination Parthenogenesis Allogamy and autogamy Other variants of bisexual reproduction Benefits of cross-fertilization See also References External links
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