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SUBMITTER: Rapuano H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5307385 | biostudies-other | 2017 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Rapuano Hanna H Brickner Itzchak I Shlesinger Tom T Meroz-Fine Efrat E Tamir Raz R Loya Yossi Y
Scientific reports 20170214
Here we describe for the first time the reproductive biology of the scleractinian coral Turbinaria reniformis studied during three years at the coral reefs of Eilat and Aqaba. We also investigated the possibility of sex change in individually tagged colonies followed over a period of 12 years. T. reniformis was found to be a stable gonochorist (no detected sex change) that reproduces by broadcast spawning 5-6 nights after the full moon of June and July. Spawning was highly synchronized between i ...[more]