Prior to his time in Chicago, Just conducted research at the Woods Hole Biological Marine Laboratory, where his work with marine invertebrates revealed that the ectoplasm (egg surface) significantly i...Prior to his time in Chicago, Just conducted research at the Woods Hole Biological Marine Laboratory, where his work with marine invertebrates revealed that the ectoplasm (egg surface) significantly influences the fertilization and development of eggs (Just 1919, 1922; Wellner 2010). Despite his major contributions to our understanding of fertilization and evolutionary developmental biology, his work was “...largely forgotten and invisible to the world of biology” (Byrnes and Newman 2014).
Prior to his time in Chicago, Just conducted research at the Woods Hole Biological Marine Laboratory, where his work with marine invertebrates revealed that the ectoplasm (egg surface) significantly i...Prior to his time in Chicago, Just conducted research at the Woods Hole Biological Marine Laboratory, where his work with marine invertebrates revealed that the ectoplasm (egg surface) significantly influences the fertilization and development of eggs (Just 1919, 1922; Wellner 2010). Despite his major contributions to our understanding of fertilization and evolutionary developmental biology, his work was “...largely forgotten and invisible to the world of biology” (Byrnes and Newman 2014).
