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A preliminary test of the transitional growth spurt hypothesis using the protogynous coral trout Plectropomus maculatus
Author(s) -
Adams S.,
Williams A. J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of fish biology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.672
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1095-8649
pISSN - 0022-1112
DOI - 10.1111/j.1095-8649.2001.tb02350.x
Subject(s) - biology , sex change , growth spurt , coral , fishery , sexual maturity , zoology , ecology , fish <actinopterygii> , endocrinology
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.