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Microscopic examination will enable physiologist Laura King to see if a freshly laid egg was fertilized. Any holes made by sperm will show up in a section (stained for viewing) taken from the surface layer surrounding the yolk in the area just over the germinal disc.

Photo by Keith Weller.






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