Table 1 Herpolitha limax: Population reproductive traits during 2012–2017 in Okinawa, Aqaba and Eilat. Sex-ratio: M:F:T - Male: Female: Transitional state.
From: Repetitive sex change in the stony coral Herpolitha limax across a wide geographic range
Site | Okinawa | Aqaba | Eilat | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2013 | 2015 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Sample size | n = 58 | n = 89 | n = 103 | n = 79 | n = 123 | n = 117 | n = 48 | n = 54 | n = 45 | n = 66 | n = 52 | n = 55 |
Number (n) and sex of corals observed breeding | 29 M | 47 M | 50 M | 30 M | 31 M | 18 M | 25 M | 16 M | 7 M | 23 M | 13 M | 20 M |
6 F | 31 F | 31 F | 34 F | 25 F | 9 F |  | 10 F |  | 7 F | 1 F | 4 F | |
|  | 4 T | 14 T | 4 T | 3 T | 2 T |  |  |  |  |  |  | |
No. of non-reproductive (NR) corals | 23 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 64 | 88 | 23 | 28 | 38 | 36 | 38 | 31 |
Sex-ratio (M:F:T) | 1:0.2 | 1:0.65:0.08 | 1:0.62:0.28 | 0.88:1:0.11 | 1:0.8:0.09 | 1:0.5:0.11 | 1:0 | 1:0.62 | 1:0 | 1:0.3 | 1:0.07 | 1:0.2 |
% reproduction | 60 | 92 | 92 | 86 | 47 | 24 | 52 | 48 | 15 | 45 | 27 | 44 |
% corals releasing both gametes (T) | 0 | 4 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
