August Alphonse Derbès (8 May 1818, Marseille – 27 January 1894, Marseille) was a French professor of naturalist, zoologist and botanist at the University of Marseille who studied reproduction of sea urchins and of algae.[1] Derbès was the first scientist to observe the fertilization of an egg in an animal when he detailed the process of an envelope forming around the gamete during sea urchin reproduction, a process now known to be associated with Ca2+ release.[2][3]
With Elisée Reverchon he issued the exsiccata Plantes de France.[4]
References
edit- ^ "August Alphonse Derbès at IPNI". Retrieved 28 July 2012.
- ^ Briggs, Elissa; Gary M. Wessel (2006). "In the beginning… Animal fertilization and sea urchin development". Developmental Biology. 300 (1): 15–26. doi:10.1016/j.ydbio.2006.07.014. PMID 17070796.
- ^ Parrington, John; Davis, Lianne C.; Galione, Antony; Wessel, Gary (1 August 2007). "Flipping the switch: How a sperm activates the egg at fertilization". Developmental Dynamics. 236 (8): 2027–2038. doi:10.1002/dvdy.21255. PMID 17654712. S2CID 15623488.
- ^ "Plantes de France: IndExs ExsiccataID=149938560". IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae. Botanische Staatssammlung München. Retrieved 23 July 2024.
- ^ International Plant Names Index. Derbès.
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