An Indo-Pacific coral spawning database

AH Baird, JR Guest, AJ Edwards, AG Bauman… - Scientific data, 2021 - nature.com
The discovery of multi-species synchronous spawning of scleractinian corals on the Great
Barrier Reef in the 1980s stimulated an extraordinary effort to document spawning times in …

Multispecies environmental DNA metabarcoding sheds light on annual coral spawning events

YCA Ip, JJM Chang, KPP Tun, R Meier… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Synchronous multispecific coral spawning generally occurs annually and forms an integral
part of the coral life cycle. Apart from spawning times and species participation, however …

Energy allocation trade-offs as a function of age in fungiid corals

M Grinblat, L Eyal-Shaham, G Eyal… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
To compete effectively, living organisms must adjust the allocation of available energy
resources for growth, survival, maintenance, and reproduction throughout their life histories …

Biogeography, reproductive biology and phylogenetic divergence within the Fungiidae (mushroom corals)

M Grinblat, I Cooke, T Shlesinger, O Ben-Zvi… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2021 - Elsevier
While the escalating impacts of climate change and other anthropogenic pressures on coral
reefs are well documented at the coral community level, studies of species-specific trends …

The stony coral Fimbriaphyllia (Euphyllia) ancora's reproductive strategy involves a sex change every year

S Shikina, PH Tsai, YL Chiu, CF Chang - Communications Biology, 2024 - nature.com
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 …

Sexual reproduction of reef corals and application to coral restoration

PL Harrison - Oceanographic Processes of Coral Reefs, 2024 - taylorfrancis.com
Successful sexual reproduction is essential for the maintenance, recovery, adaptation, and
evolution of reef-building scleractinian corals that create coral reefs. Sexual reproductive …

Induced sexual reproduction ex situ reveals bidirectional sex change of the coral Montastraea cavernosa

KV Laforest, CG Petrik, AA Hylton, RL Ionata… - Coral Reefs, 2024 - Springer
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 …

A unique reproductive strategy in the mushroom coral Fungia fungites

L Eyal-Shaham, G Eyal, O Ben-Zvi, K Sakai, S Harii… - Coral Reefs, 2020 - Springer
The vast majority of scleractinian corals are either simultaneous hermaphrodites or
gonochoric. Exceptions to these are rare. Nevertheless, species belonging to the family …

Reproductive biology and early life history of the solitary coral Heliofungia actiniformis from Singapore and the Philippines

SLG Sayco, R Prasetia, PA Todd, Y Loya, B Valencia… - Marine Biology, 2024 - Springer
Reproduction and early life history are central to understanding the biology and ecology of
organisms, however such information is limited for solitary corals. Here, we compared the …

石芝珊瑚(Fungiidae) 的分类, 生活史及其生物地理研究进展

韦雨鑫, 余克服, 陈飚 - 热带地理, 2022 - rddl.com.cn
石芝珊瑚(Fungiidae) 作为珊瑚礁生态系统框架的主要构建者之一, 以其丰富的物种多样性,
独特的移动性和对环境变化的强适应性, 在维持珊瑚礁生态系统的稳定中起重要作用 …