Marine heatwave temperatures enhance larval performance but are meditated by paternal thermal history and inter-individual differences in the purple sea urchin …

TS Leach, GE Hofmann - Frontiers in Physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Marine heatwave (MHW) events, characterized by periods of anomalous temperatures, are
an increasingly prevalent threat to coastal marine ecosystems. Given the seasonal …

Characterization of a sperm motility signalling pathway in a gonochoric coral suggests conservation across cnidarian sexual systems

BH Glass, J Ashey, AR Okongwu… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Most stony corals liberate their gametes into the water column via broadcast spawning,
where fertilization hinges upon the activation of directional sperm motility. Sperm from …

Fertilisation kinetics among common Indo-Pacific broadcast spawning corals with distinct and shared functional traits

E Buccheri, GF Ricardo, RC Babcock, PJ Mumby… - Coral Reefs, 2023 - Springer
Indo-Pacific corals predominantly reproduce using synchronous mass spawning events to
maximise fertilisation. However, as disturbances continue to thin population densities, the …

Modeling fertilization outcome in a changing world

KYK Chan, WH KO - Integrative And Comparative Biology, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Marine organisms have complex life histories. For broadcast spawners, successful
continuation of the population requires their small gametes to make contact in the water …

[HTML][HTML] Valve gaping behaviour in the European oyster (Ostrea edulis) in response to changes in light intensity when combined with variations in salinity and …

SD Bamber - Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 2023 - Elsevier
Valve gaping behaviour in bivalve molluscs controls the flow of water across gills that
provides both food, and oxygen for respiration. Closure of the valves also provides …

Parental exposure to ocean acidification impacts gamete production and physiology but not offspring performance in Nematostella vectensis

BH Glass, AH Schmitt, KT Brown, KF Speer… - Biology …, 2023 - journals.biologists.com
Ocean acidification (OA) resulting from anthropogenic CO2 emissions is impairing the
reproduction of marine organisms. While parental exposure to OA can protect offspring via …

Questioning success: Fertilisation outcomes in non-standard experiments in the sea-cake Dendraster excentricus

L Kumpitsch, S Hanson, LM Beckmann - 2023 - digital.lib.washington.edu
Fertilisation in a laboratory environment is often not representative of ecological field
conditions in which fertilisation naturally occurs, especially for broadcast-spawning species …