Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 290(1990) Jan 2023 [Refereed][Invited]
Marine animals show diverse and flexible sexual systems. Here, we review several advancements of theoretical studies made in the last decade. (i) Sex change in coral fishes is often accompanied by a long break in reproductive activity. The delay c...
Journal of theoretical biology 533 110939-110939 Jan 2022 [Refereed]
In some species of separate sexes, males present a nuptial gift containing nutrition to their mate. Producing a large nuptial gift is a considerable cost to the male, but it may improve his siring success if the female reduces the likelihood to ac...
Journal of theoretical biology 537 111019-111019 Jan 2022 [Refereed]
Many marine invertebrates have a benthic adult life with planktonic long feeding larval stages (planktotrophy). In other species, planktonic larvae do not eat, and after a rather short period, they settle and initiate their benthic stages (lecitho...
Journal of theoretical biology 537 111016-111016 Jan 2022 [Refereed]
Fish live in water with a different osmotic pressure from that in the body. Their gills have chloride cells that transport ions to maintain an appropriate level of osmotic pressure in the body. The direction of ion transport is different between s...