A preliminary test of the transitional growth spurt hypothesis using the protogynous coral trout Plectropomus maculatus
Abstract
Estimates of back-calculated size at age provided no evidence of a growth spurt following sexual transition in the protogynous serranid Plectropomus maculatus. The results suggested that mature females that had a large size at age early in life changed sex to male.
- Publication:
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Journal of Fish Biology
- Pub Date:
- July 2001
- DOI:
- 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb02350.x
- Bibcode:
- 2001JFBio..59..183A