For broadcast spawning organisms like echinoderms, the timing of the union of gametes is essential for successful fertilization. However, the release of gametes is not always synchronous and the success of fertilization is highly dependent upon a number of factors including: the number and distribution of spawning adults, the timing of gamete release, the dispersal of gametes, the interaction of gametes within the water column, turbulence in the water column, and the phenotypic properties (e.g. size) of the gametes themselves. Previous studies have shown that the longer sperm is in the water column the greater their mobility decreases and they become diluted, causing fertilization to be less likely. However, the importance of egg age at fer...
Although parental effects (non-genetic effects of the parental phenotype or environment on the pheno...
The evolution of egg size has been intensively studied due to its influence on both fecundity and of...
Past work on fertilization in echinoids and other egg-broadcasting, free-spawning invertebrates sugg...
Abstract. Gamete age has been postulated to be unimpor-tant to the fertilization ecology of marine i...
Fertilisation kinetics theory suggests that, when sperm are limiting, the larger eggs of broadcast-s...
The evolution of egg size in marine invertebrates remains a topic of central importance for life-his...
A fundamental life-history trade-off occurs between the size and number of offspring that a female p...
Life-history models for marine invertebrate animals assume a strong correlation between the size of ...
Within and across taxa, there is much variation in the mode of fertilization, i.e. whether eggs and/...
Organisms have limited resources available to invest in reproduction, causing a tradeoff between the...
For organisms with complex life histories, the direction and magnitude of phenotypic links among lif...
There has been growing interest in the effects of variation in larval quality on the post-larval per...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of sperm dilution, egg concentration, sperm-egg ...
The globoid sea urchin (Salmaciella dussumieri) occurs abundantly in the Indo-West Pacific from the ...
SUMMARY Understanding the relationship between egg size, development time, and juvenile size is crit...
Although parental effects (non-genetic effects of the parental phenotype or environment on the pheno...
The evolution of egg size has been intensively studied due to its influence on both fecundity and of...
Past work on fertilization in echinoids and other egg-broadcasting, free-spawning invertebrates sugg...
Abstract. Gamete age has been postulated to be unimpor-tant to the fertilization ecology of marine i...
Fertilisation kinetics theory suggests that, when sperm are limiting, the larger eggs of broadcast-s...
The evolution of egg size in marine invertebrates remains a topic of central importance for life-his...
A fundamental life-history trade-off occurs between the size and number of offspring that a female p...
Life-history models for marine invertebrate animals assume a strong correlation between the size of ...
Within and across taxa, there is much variation in the mode of fertilization, i.e. whether eggs and/...
Organisms have limited resources available to invest in reproduction, causing a tradeoff between the...
For organisms with complex life histories, the direction and magnitude of phenotypic links among lif...
There has been growing interest in the effects of variation in larval quality on the post-larval per...
An experiment was conducted to determine the effect of sperm dilution, egg concentration, sperm-egg ...
The globoid sea urchin (Salmaciella dussumieri) occurs abundantly in the Indo-West Pacific from the ...
SUMMARY Understanding the relationship between egg size, development time, and juvenile size is crit...
Although parental effects (non-genetic effects of the parental phenotype or environment on the pheno...
The evolution of egg size has been intensively studied due to its influence on both fecundity and of...
Past work on fertilization in echinoids and other egg-broadcasting, free-spawning invertebrates sugg...