Weak prezygotic isolating mechanisms in threatened caribbean Acropora corals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Fogarty, Nicole D ^a,c   Vollmer, Steven V ^b   Levitan, Don R ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN MARINE STATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ACROPORA PALMATA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL REPRODUCTIVE PROCEDURES; ARTICLE; CELL VIABILITY; CORAL; EGG; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; GAMETE; HYBRIDIZATION; INTROGRESSION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREZYGOTIC REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATING MECHANISM; SPAWNING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPERM; ANIMAL; ANTHOZOA; CENTRAL AMERICA; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA CERVICORNIS; ACROPORA PALMATA; ACROPORA PROLIFERA; ANTHOZOA;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; CARIBBEAN REGION; ENDANGERED SPECIES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84856947188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030486     Document Type: Article

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