Nevertheless
individuals of the same brood could be
fertilized asynchronously, as described
by Thibault and Schultz
(1978), who estimated a time span of
up to 6 days within the same brood. In
agreement with this, we found that
specimens explanted from the same
mother at 8 days after last parturition
(dap) fell into three groups: blastodisc,
shield, and optic cup embryos