Possible Natural Hybridization of Two Morphologically Distinct Species of Acropora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) in the Pacific: Fertilization and Larval Survival Rates

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Isomura, Naoko ^a   Iwao, Kenji ^b   Fukami, Hironobu ^c  

^a OKINAWA NATIONAL COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Akajima Marine Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACROPORA; ACROPORA FLORIDA; ACROPORA INTERMEDIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CNIDARIA; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FERTILIZATION; INTERSPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; INTRASPECIFIC HYBRIDIZATION; JAPAN; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; LARVAL STAGE; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLANULA; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANIMALS; CNIDARIA; FERTILIZATION; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; LARVA; PACIFIC OCEAN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84874015657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056701     Document Type: Article

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