Theodor Boveri on cytoplasmic organization in the sea urchin egg
pp. 41-43
in: , Landmarks in developmental biology 1883–1924, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
Theodor Boveri, in the words of Edmund B. Wilson (1918), "throughout his life held with extraordinary tenacity to the investigation of a group of problems that were already clearly in his view during his first researches. What is the egg, and what does it contain? How are hereditary traits represented in the egg and determined during its development? What is the background from which they emerge into view, one after another, as development goes forward? By what mechanism (if mechanism it be) do the unseen potentialities hidden within the germ become realities that appear before our eyes in the embryo and adult?"