A new scientific discovery study has shown that a female stressed mushroom can turn into male mushroom, the first to show that corals can change sex in both direction.
Mushroom corals belong to a family called Fungiidae which are solitary, mobile species distributed throughout Pacific and Indian Oceans. The reproduction of mushroom corals remains a challenge for scientists to discover. Mushroom corals are very diversified and so abundant.
The discovery was surprised many coral reef scientists. “We know in detail the reproductive patterns of more than 500 coral species, but no one reported before on the fact that some coral species may change sex,” says lead author professor Yossi Loya, a zoologist at Tel Aviv University.
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