Table of Contents
The Not-So-Secret
Sex Lives of Scleractinian Corals
Basic Concepts to be
Covered
Asexual Reproduction
Types of Polyp
Budding
Modes of Asexual
Reproduction
Accidental
Fragmentation
Accidental
Fragmentation
Nonaccidental
Fragmentation
Nonaccidental
Fragmentation
Nonaccidental
Fragmentation
Partial Colony
Mortality
Partial Colony
Mortality
Anthocaulus-like
Stalk Grown from a Septal Fragment in Fungia scutaria
Tissue Regeneration
in Fungia scutaria
Partial Colony
Mortality
Asexual Planula
Polyp Bail-Out
Sexuality
Location of Gonads
in Coral Polyps
Types of
Hermaphroditism
Adaptive
Considerations
Hermaphroditic
Corals in Hawaii
Gonochoric Corals in
Hawaii
Brooding Versus
Broadcast Spawning
Adaptive
Considerations
Adaptive
Considerations
Adaptive
Considerations
Brooding Corals in
Hawaii
Broadcast Spawning
Corals in Hawaii
Reproductive Effort
and Fecundity
Reproductive Effort
and Fecundity
Environmental
Stresses Yielding Lower Fecundity in Corals
Zooxanthellae
Incorporation into Eggs
Timing and Synchrony
Reproductive Cycles
Observed
Advantages to
Synchronized Spawning
Proximate Factors
Synchronizing Spawning in Corals
Proximate Factors
Synchronizing Spawning in Corals
Proximate Factors
Synchronizing Spawning in Corals
Proximate Factors
Synchronizing Spawning in Corals
Reproductive
Synchrony in Some Hawaiian Corals
Differences in the
Timing of Planulation by Pocillopora damicornis
Multiple Species
Mass Spawning Events
Advantages and
Disadvantages of Multispecies Mass Spawning
Egg Buoyancy During
Spawning
Egg-Sperm Bundle
Break Up by Montipora capitata
Fungia scutaria Egg
Fungia scutaria
Cleavage - Two Cells
Fungia scutaria
Cleavage - Four Cells
Fungia scutaria
Early Blastula
Fungia scutaria
Planula Stages
Mouth of Fungia
Planula
Fungia scutaria
Settled Polyp
Planula Dispersal
and Settlement
Possible Planula
Food Sources
Coral Dispersal by
Rafting on Floating Objects
Life Cycle of Fungia
scutaria
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