Where do clonal coral larvae go? Adult genotypic diversity conflicts with reproductive effort in the brooding coral Pocillopora damicornis

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 277, Issue , 2004, Pages 95-105

  Ayre, David J ^a   Miller, Karen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asexual; Clonal; Genetics; Planulae; Reproduction; Spatial heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

ASEXUAL REPRODUCTION; CORAL; RECRUITMENT; REPRODUCTIVE STRATEGY; SEXUAL REPRODUCTION;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUEENSLAND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

ANTHOZOA; INVERTEBRATA; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; SCLERACTINIA;

EID: 4544267175     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps277095     Document Type: Article

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