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Circatrigintan instead of lunar periodicity of larval release in a brooding coral species

Larval release by brooding corals is often assumed to display lunar periodicity. Here, we show that larval release of individual Stylophora pistillata colonies does not comply with the assumed tight entrainment by the lunar cycle, and can better be classified as a circatrigintan pattern. The colonie...

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Autores principales: Linden, Bart, Huisman, Jef, Rinkevich, Baruch
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5884822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-23274-w