Early stages of development in mediterranean red coral (corallium rubrum): the key role of sclerites

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The "layer by layer" growth for the AZ (Grillo et_al, 1993; Allemand and Bé nazet-Tambutté, 1996; Debreuil et_al, 2011; Perrin et_al, 2015; Vielzeuf et_al, 2018). C. rubrum is a gonochoric brooder species that releases lecithotrophic, aposymbiotic, ciliated larvae between July and the first half of August (Lacaze-Duthiers, 1864; Santangelo et_al, 2003; Bramanti et_al, 2005). Both kinds of skeletal structures -axial skeleton and sclerites- are made of Mg-rich calcite with a small percentage of organic components (Grillo et_al, 1993; Allemand et_al, 1994). Concerning the internal structure of the adult axial skeleton, two . . .

 



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