Molting in land crabs: stimulation by leg removal.
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.
D000818:Animals; D002776:Cholestanes / Q000494:pharmacology; D003445:Crustacea / Q000502:physiology*; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D007447:Invertebrate Hormones / Q000502:physiology; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D009490:Neurosecretory Systems / Q000502:physiology
D002776:Cholestanes; D007447:Invertebrate Hormones