1. Stem Cell Biology Research Center, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 2. Research and Clinical Center for Infertility, Yazd Reproductive Sciences Institute, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, Iran. 3. Department of Reproductive Biology, School of Medicine, Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences, Yazd, I...

The Subclass Octocorallia represents a geographically and morphologically diverse group of Cnidarians for which basic life history, including reproductive biology, is poorly known in most species. Current knowledge of reproduction in this group is derived from a few of taxonomic descriptions which include information on reproductive morphology (e.g. Kukenthal 1919), and a limited number of publ...