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Gene diversity and mode of reproduction in the brooded larvae of the coral Heteroxenia fuscescens.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Fuchs Yaron, Douek Jacob, Rinkevich Baruch, Ben-Shlomo Rachel
Abstract excerpt
The soft coral Heteroxenia fuscescens is a common shallow-reef brooding species in the Red Sea. By means of amplified fragment length polymorphism markers, we studied modes of reproduction of planulae (sexual vs. vegetative) and levels of gene diversity of a population residing in the northern Gulf of Eilat, Red Sea. Eighty-nine larvae were collected from 9 mother colonies at 3 locations over a distance of 5 km....
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