Spawning events in small and large populations of the green sea urchin Strongylocentrotus droebachiensis as recorded using fertilization assays

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1485-1496

  Gaudette, Julien ^a,c   Wahle, Richard A ^b   Himmelman, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^c GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECHINODERM; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); SPAWNING; SPERM;

MAINE; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ALGAE; ECHINOIDEA; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS; STRONGYLOCENTROTUS DROEBACHIENSIS;

EID: 33744921362     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.3.1485     Document Type: Article

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