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Repetitive sex change in the stony coral Herpolitha limax across a wide geographic range

Sex change has been widely studied in animals and plants. However, the conditions favoring sex change, its mode and timing remain poorly known. Here, for the first time in stony corals, we report on a protandrous (youngest individuals are males) repetitive sex change exhibited by the fungiid coral H...

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Autores principales: Eyal-Shaham, Lee, Eyal, Gal, Sakai, Kazuhiko, Nozawa, Yoko, Harii, Saki, Sinniger, Frederic, Bronstein, Omri, Ben-Zvi, Or, Shlesinger, Tom, Loya, Yossi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6393666/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30814532
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37619-y