Acute hypoxic exposure affects gamete quality and subsequent fertilization ess and embryonic development in a serpulid polychaete.pdf.pdf

Marine Pollution Bulletin 85 (2014) 439–445
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Acute hypoxic exposure affects gamete quality and subsequent
fertilization ess and embryonic development in a serpulid
polychaete
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. Shin a,b, . Leung a, . Qiu c, . Ang d, . Chiu c, V. Thiyagarajan e, . Cheung a,b,
a Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
b State Key Laboratory in Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
c Department of Biology, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China
d School of Life Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
e School of Biological Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong, China
article info abstract
Article history: Hypoxia promises the reproductive ess of those anisms carrying out external
Available online 21 March 2014 fertilization because their gametes and embryos are inevitably exposed to the external environment.
Hydroides elegans, a dominant serpulid polychaete in Hong Kong waters, can spawn throughout the year
Keywords: but the number of recruits drops during summer when monly occurs. This study attempted
Hypoxia to explain such observation by investigating the gamete quality, including sperm motility, egg size,
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