found: Work cat.: Lee, C.-Y. Vitellogenesis in the blue crab, Callincetes sapidus (Decapoda: Crustacea), 1994:abstr. (Vitellogenesis is the process of egg yolk formation)
found: MeSH Online, Feb. 14, 2008(Vitellogenesis: The active production and accumulation of vitellins (egg yolk proteins) in the non-mammalian oocytes from circulating precursors, vitellogenins. Vitellogenesis usually begins after the first meiosis and is regulated by estrogenic hormones; MeSH BT: Oogenesis)
found: McGraw-Hill dictionary of scientific and technical terms, 2003(vitellogenesis -- [physiology] -- The process by which yolk is formed in the ooplasm of an oocyte)
found: Quarterly review of biology, Mar. 2004:p. 77 (Vitellogenesis is the integrated process of the synthesis of the yolk protein precursors and their uptake by the growing oocytes resulting in the production of the mature eggs ready to be laid)
found: Web. 3(vitellogenesis yolk formation)
