Prezygotic barriers to hybridization in marine broadcast spawners: reproductive timing and mating system variation.

Sympatric assemblages of congeners with incomplete reproductive barriers offer the opportunity to study the roles that ecological and non-ecological factors play in reproductive isolation. While interspecific asynchrony in gamete release and gametic incompatibility are known prezygotic barriers to h...

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Main Authors: Carla A Monteiro, Ester A Serrão, Gareth A Pearson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3338553?pdf=render