Relationships between size and reproductive output in the crown-of-thorns starfish

Studies of pre-spawning crown-of-thorns starfish Acanthaster (COTS) collected from the Great Barrier Reef showed average female gonad mass of 16 % (±8 s.d.) and for males 12 % (±6 s.d.). In females up to 34 % of the body mass could be devoted to gonad. Based on these data, we also derived relationsh...

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