… Samples of egg capsules from the gastropod Crepipatella dilatata … capsule wall layers,
and alterations in wall thickness during development. The diffusion coefficient and capsule wall …

… plug) or the substances that fasten the plug to the capsule walls (Sullivan and Maugel,
1984; Chaparro and Flores, 2002; Miles and Clark, 2002; Ojeda and Chaparro, 2004). In the …

… During their reproductive period, females of Crepipatella dilatata deposit their embryos in
capsules … The magnitude of the investment in capsule walls may also be related to the need for …

… Females of Crepipatella fecunda, the species with free-living larvae, … as Crepipatella dilatata
does, by producing more egg capsules as well as greater numbers of embryos per capsule (…

… capsules containing developing embryos are maintained beneath the mother’s shell until the
encapsulated embryos hatch. Crepipatella dilatata … multi-layered walls provide some extra …

… gastropods Crepipatella peruviana and Crepipatella dilatata … acid; MAA) in brooding
females, capsule walls and early and pre-… capsule walls of both species of Crepipatella (F (1,6) …

… The brooded egg capsules in Crepipatella dilatata are … capsule wall of Crepipatella
diliatata does not act as a barrier to calcium and thus cannot limit its loss from the intracapsular …

… of one egg capsule influences the hatching of sister egg capsules within the … Crepipatella
dilatata, which includes nurse eggs in its egg capsules and broods clusters of egg capsules …

… then made in the distal end of each capsule to release capsular fluid. A volume of 10 μl of this
… the egg capsules allowed us to determine the degree to which the egg capsule walls acted …

… the capsule walls reduce the rate at which the osmotic concentration of the capsular fluid falls
… the exterior environment, ie the walls provide only partial protection. On the other hand, the …