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Mating system variation in the hermaphroditic brooding coral, Seriatopora hystrix.
Heredity - 1 Mar 2008
Sherman C D H
Abstract excerpt
Self-compatible, hermaphroditic marine invertebrates have the potential to self-fertilize in the absence of mates or under sperm-limited conditions, and outcross when sperm is available from a variety of males. Hence, many hermaphroditic marine invertebrates may have evolved mixed-mating systems that involve facultative self-fertilization. Such mixed-mating strategies are well documented for plants but have...
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