Eugene Bataillon (1864–1953) and traumatic parthenogenesis
pp. 63-65
in: , Landmarks in developmental biology 1883–1924, Berlin, Springer, 1997Abstract
It is to Eugene Bataillon (Courrier 1954; Rostand 1959; Fischer and Smith 1984) that we owe the insight that the fécondation of the ovum results from two events, first the activation by the penetrating sperm, and second a régulation induced by the sperm aster, which initiates a balanced cell division, the first step in embryogenesis.1 Bataillon put forward this hypothesis after his discovery (1910/11) of traumatic parthenogenesis in a vertebrate, the frog.