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Fertilization in Protozoa and Metazoan Animals: A Comparative Overview

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This review aims to summarize the information provided in this book and give an integrated view of the process of fertilization in two different and separate groups of eukaryotic organisms: protozoa and metazoan animals. As a summary/concluding chapter, this essay provides only a schematic synthesis of the topics treated in this book. For specific details, readers are referred to previous sections of this book as well as to the studies cited throughout this chapter. The rapid pace at which the field of fertilization advances, in particular the area of cell signalling, may render some of the concepts and conclusions laid down here obsolete by the time this review leaves the press. Being aware of this circumstance, I beg readers to be tolerant of any inconsistency in the state of the art of this field when reading this essay. I am open to any comment/suggestion readers wish to make for improving further editions of this synthesis.