Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the taxonomy, phylogeny, biogeography,
ecology, and reproductive biology of deep-sea octocorals and also focuses on gorgonian …

A bstract The Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum, L. 1758) is a slow-growing
longevous gorgonian that produces a red calcium carbonate skeleton, which is in high …

Les données empiriques et expérimentales montrent que la reproduction des cnidaires est
plus variable qu'on ne l'avait cru précédemment et plusieurs déductions au sujet des …

Clonal reproduction, a common life history strategy among sessile marine invertebrates, can
lead to high local abundances of one to a few genotypes in a population. Analysis of the …

Most cnidarian-microalgae symbioses exhibit some degree of specificity in host-symbiont
pairing. Among taxa with aposymbiotic larvae, specificity must be established each …

For octocorals, sexual reproductive processes are fundamental to maintaining populations
and influencing macroevolutionary processes. While ecological data on octocorals have …

Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) is a typical gorqonian species of sublittoral communities
found on rocky substrates in the Mediterranean Sea. The reproductive biology of this …

Previous investigations, focused primarily on vertebrates, have noted substantial losses of
eggs and embryos to predators and questioned why selection has not more commonly …

This study provides the first description of the reproductive features of a red coral Corallium
rubrum population. This circum-Mediterranean octocoral has been over-harvested and …

The morphologically variable reef coral previously known as Montastraea annularis (Ellis
and Solander, 1786) has recently been separated into three species based on differences in …