Changes in spawning time led to the speciation of the broadcast spawning corals Acropora digitifera and the cryptic species Acropora sp. 1 with similar gamete recognition systems

Coral Reefs

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1189-1198

  Ohki, Shun ^a   Kowalski, Radoslaw K ^b   Kitanobo, Seiya ^a,c   Morita, Masaya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL REPRODUCTION AND FOOD RESEARCH   (Poland)

^c OKINAWA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coral; Fertilization; Gamete recognition; Hybridization; Reproductive isolation; Synchronous spawning

Indexed keywords

CORAL; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); HYBRIDIZATION; MORPHOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; REPRODUCTIVE ISOLATION; SPAWNING; SPERM;

ACROPORA; ACROPORA DIGITIFERA; ANTHOZOA;

EID: 84947127342     PISSN: 07224028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00338-015-1337-4     Document Type: Article

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