Considered a delicacy in several parts of the world, sea urchin, or uni in Japanese, is prized for its unique flavor. But the cost of the gonads — the orange tongues found inside an urchin ...

Inside the spiky test are five corals of roe, sometimes called tongues—the sea urchin’s wobbly gonads. Karoline O.A. Pettersen Sea urchins with their skin and spines removed. Jennifer Steen ...

We are interested in the role of the extracellular matrix in embryonic development. We have found that treatment of sea urchin embryos with chlorate, a competitive inhibitor of sulfation of ...