Study of the maturation and the beginning of segmentation of the egg of Aplysia punctata by vital staining with toluidine blue demonstrates the appearance of a ‘colourless plasm’ and its unequal distribution between the various blastomeres. It may be a component analogous to the pole plasms of other Spiralia, correlated with the inequality of the cleavage divisions and with morphogenesis.

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