Eggs regulate sperm flagellar motility initiation, chemotaxis and inhibition in the coral Acropora digitifera, A. gemmifera and A. tenuis

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 209, Issue 22, 2006, Pages 4574-4579

  Morita, Masaya ^a   Nishikawa, Akira ^a   Nakajima, Ayako ^b   Iguchi, Akira ^c   Sakai, Kazuhiko ^a   Takemura, Akihiro ^a   Okuno, Makoto ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acropora; Chemotaxis; Coral; Flagellar motility; Mass spawning; Sperm

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; ARTICLE; CHEMOTAXIS; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OOCYTE; PHYSIOLOGY; SPERMATOZOON; SPERMATOZOON MOTILITY; SPERMATOZOON TAIL;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CHEMOTAXIS; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; OVUM; SPERM MOTILITY; SPERM TAIL; SPERMATOZOA;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA DIGITIFERA; ACROPORA GEMMIFERA; ACROPORA TENUIS; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 33845729456     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.02500     Document Type: Article

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