Photo by ThinkP. Creative Commons License. Reef related links from around the net. Enjoy and feel free to share your own via comments below. Fish numbers drop in Caribbean after reefs take a beating. The Lionfish are not helping. Fungia repanda and Ctenactis echinata show interesting sex change survival tactics in 3 year study performed by Israeli and [...]
- Fish numbers drop in Caribbean after reefs take a beating. The Lionfish are not helping.
- Fungia repanda and Ctenactis echinata show interesting sex change survival tactics in 3 year study performed by Israeli and Japanese scientists. Excerpt from abstract:
Sex change in fungiid corals
Yossi LOYA , Kazuhiko SAKAI
Tel Aviv University, University of the RyukyusOur knowledge of the various modes of sexual reproduction in scleractinian corals has increased greatly during the last two decades, but is far from encompassing the wide plasticity of reproductive strategies exhibited by this group. Here we report on novel observations of sex change in two coral species, where tagged individuals have been monitored during 3 years in the field and experimental aquaria at Sesoko, Okinawa: Fungia repanda (exhibiting protandry), and Ctenactis echinata, revealing novel bidirectional mode of sex change: (M-F-M and F-M-F).
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