Broadcast Spawning by Pocillopora Species on the Great Barrier Reef

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schmidt Roach, Sebastian ^a,b   Miller, Karen J ^a   Woolsey, Erika ^c   Gerlach, Gabriele ^d   Baird, Andrew H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGA; ARTICLE; CORAL; CORAL REEF; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OOCYTE; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; SPAWNING; SPERM; SYMBIODONIUM;

ANIMALS; ANTHOZOA; AUSTRALIA; CORAL REEFS; FEMALE; ISLANDS; MALE; MITOCHONDRIA; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; REPRODUCTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANTHOZOA; POCILLOPORA; POCILLOPORA DAMICORNIS; SYMBIODINIUM;

EID: 84870854188     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050847     Document Type: Article

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