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Document Type
Article
Source of Publication
F1000Research
Publication Date
4-9-2014
Abstract
© 2014 Baird AH et al. Determining when corals reproduce has clear management and economic implications. Here we document the reproductive condition of corals in the genus Acropora on the island of Socotra in Yemen during February 2014. Twenty percent of colonies (n = 143) contained mature gametes and 28% had immature gametes indicating that spawning will occur in both February and March in 2014, confirming previous anecdotal reports of coral spawning at this time in Socotra. Acropora typically reproduce in synchrony with many other broadcast spawning scleractinian corals, and we therefore predict that many other species are reproductively active at this time of year.
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Publisher
Faculty of 1000 Ltd
Volume
3
Disciplines
Life Sciences
Keywords
Acropora, Article, controlled study, economic aspect, gamete, gametogenesis, nonhuman, oocyte, reproduction, spawning, species difference, Yemen
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Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Baird, Andrew H.; Abrego, David; Howells, Emily J.; and Cumbo, Vivian R., "The reproductive season of Acropora in Socotra, Yemen" (2014). All Works. 3565.
https://zuscholars.zu.ac.ae/works/3565
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yes
Open Access Type
Gold: This publication is openly available in an open access journal/series