Spawning Coordination of Mates in a Shell Brooding Cichlid

Aim. External fertilisation requires synchronisation of gamete release between the two sexes. Adequate synchronisation is essential in aquatic media because sperm is very short-lived in water. In the cichlid Lamprologus callipterus, fertilisation of the eggs takes place inside an empty snail shell,...

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Autores principales: Schütz, Dolores, Heg-Bachar, Zina, Taborsky, Michael, Heg, Dik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/517849

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3425056/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22928149
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/517849

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