| taking the plunge: california grunion embryos emerge rapidly with environmentally cued hatching. | the process of hatching has been well studied in some model species of teleosts: the medaka oryzias latipes, the mummichog fundulus heteroclitus, and the zebrafish danio rerio. these models are compared to the california grunion, leuresthes tenuis that has some unique features of reproduction related to tidal synchrony of spawning and environmentally cued hatching (ech). during oviposition at spring tides, this marine teleost spawns out of water to bury its clutches on sandy beaches in the high ... | 2011 | 21665921 |