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Science 24 July 1970:
Vol. 169. no. 3943, pp. 383 - 385
DOI: 10.1126/science.169.3943.383
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Molting in Land Crabs: Stimulation by Leg Removal

Dorothy M. Skinner 1 and Dale E. Graham 2

1 Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830
2 University of Tennessee, Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Oak Ridge

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.


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