Sea urchin spawning in benthic boundary layers: Are eggs fertilized before advecting away from females?

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 795-801

  Yund, Philip O ^a   Meidel, Susanne K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GAMETE; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SPERM;

ANIMALIA; ECHINODERMATA; ECHINOIDA; ECHINOIDEA; INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037349976     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2003.48.2.0795     Document Type: Article

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