Molting in Land Crabs: Stimulation by Leg Removal
- 24 July 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 169 (3943), 383-385
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3943.383
Abstract
If the Bermuda land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis, loses numerous walking legs or both chelipeds, it undergoes almost immediate preparations for molting with attendant limb regeneration. Injections of the arthropod-molting hormone, ecdysterone, have no effect in either intact animals or those missing legs.Keywords
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