Coral reefs are patchily distributed across vast areas of Earth’s tropical and subtropical oceans. Dispersal of individuals between habitat patches is essential to maintain genetic connectivity between subpopulations and plays an important role in population persistence. While the biotic and abiotic factors that influence patterns of dispersal have received a great deal of attention, fundamental questions about genetic connect...

Post-mortem ovarian tissue degradation from handling effects, such as delays in preservation, can lead to inaccurate reproductive assessments. Therefore, it is important to understand the differences between handling effects and natural ovarian atresia. Seven treatments of various holding temperatures and times to preservation were applied to whole fish and extracted ovaries of three tropical deepwater snapper species. Ovarian...

Groupers (Family Epinephelidae) are important to commercial, subsistence, and recreational fisheries throughout the world. Grouper species have complex life histories that make them more vulnerable to exploitation. While there has been extensive research on some, the majority of groupers lack sufficient life history information for proper management. The yellow-edge lyretail grouper, Variola louti , has life history gaps that...