All vertebrate species produce an egg surrounded by an acellular vitelline envelope. In mammals the envelope is transparent and called the zona pellucida. The zona pellucida consists of 2–4 major proteins (Wassarman, 1988; Lefièvre et al., 2004).
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Modig, C., Westerlund, L., Olsson, PE. (2007). Oocyte zona pellucida proteins. In: Babin, P.J., Cerdà, J., Lubzens, E. (eds) The Fish Oocyte. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6235-3_5
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