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 …

A sex change phenomenon was reported in some free-living, non-sessile coral species of
the Family Fungiidae. However, there are no reports describing sex change in sessile …

Sex change occurs when an individual changes from one functional sex to another. The
direction of sex change occurs mainly from male to female (protandry) or vice versa …

Induction of gonad maturation and synchronized spawning of corals ex situ has been mostly
used to propagate corals for restoration, but it also provides a unique opportunity to study …

Sexual reproduction is widespread among eukaryotes, and the sex-determining processes
vary greatly among species. While genetic sex determination (GSD) has been intensively …

Various species of fish living in coral reef communities show sequential hermaphroditism, or
sex change. In a typical case, an individual first matures as a female, and later, when it …

Sexuality and reproductive mode are two fundamental life-history traits that exhibit largely
unexplained macroevolutionary patterns among the major groups of multicellular organisms …

Protogynous sex change has been widely reported as a life-history strategy in polygynous
reef fish. Dascyllus reticulatus is known to form haremic colonial groups on branching corals …

Heat-tolerant Porites spp exhibit divergent sexual modes and morphs. Porites cylindrica are
gonochoric, but their sex ratios vary geographically, additionally, sympatric color morphs in …

Surveys of the coral-inhabiting snail Coralliophila violacea (Lamarck)(= C. neritoidea
Kiener) were made on shallow fringing reefs (< 8 m deep) around Hsiao-Liuchiu, Taiwan …