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Bioassay and Characterization of Crustacean Limb Growth-Controlling Factors

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For close to 70 years, biologists have known that removal of eyestalks from a decapod crustacean induces molting and precocious ecdysis (Zeleny, 1905; Megušar, 1912). For almost half that time, they have known that reimplantation of eyestalks reverses this effect (Brown and Cunningham, 1939; Scudamore, 1947). Accordingly, they have postulated the existence of a crustacean molt-inhibiting hormone (MIH). In 1953, the work of Passano (1953) implicated neurosecretory cells in the x organs of the eyestalks as a major source of MIH.

This work was supported by Research Grants GB-11254, GB-4380, GB-12373, and GB-31796 X from the National Science Foundation.

We thank Morris D. Altman, Jane R. Boyer, Edwin A. Martinez, and Stefanie W. Sheehan for their valuable contributions to this work.

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Bliss, D.E., Hopkins, P.M. (1974). Bioassay and Characterization of Crustacean Limb Growth-Controlling Factors. In: Knowles, F., Vollrath, L. (eds) Neurosecretion — The Final Neuroendocrine Pathway. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12587-8_11

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