Paternal identity influences response of Acanthaster planci embryos to ocean acidification and warming

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Research was supported by the Australian Institute of Marine Science and carried out in the National Sea Simulator (SeaSim). Water chemistry analysis was carried out by Stephen Boyle at AIMS. The authors would like to thank SeaSim staff especially Andreas Severati for engineering and technical support in the SeaSim unit, and Michelle Liddy for assistance with data collection. The authors would like to acknowledge funding from a University of Sydney Scholarship (S. Foo) and from the University of Otago (K. Sparks and M. Lamare). This is Sydney Institute of Marine Science contribution number 187.