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As already indicated, recent progress in our knowledge of fertilization mechanisms is due primarily to the development of in vitro fertilization techniques. Despite many early claims (e.g., by Shenk in 1878; see review by Thibault in 1969), the first successful method was not devised until 1954, when Dauzier et al. obtained cleavage of rabbit eggs after exposing them to sperm recovered from the uterus. Since then methods have been developed for at least 11 different mammalian species, including man (Table 3).
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Gwatkin, R.B.L. (1977). Fertilization In Vitro. In: Fertilization Mechanisms in Man and Mammals. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8804-7_5
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