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Molting in land crabs: stimulation by leg removal
Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 24, 1970
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.
