Effect of eyestalk-ablation on circulating ecdysteroids in hemolymph of snow crabs, Chionoecetes opilio: Physiological evidence for a terminal molt

Integrative and Comparative Biology

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 166-171

  Tamone, Sherry L ^a   Adams, Melissa M ^b   Dutton, Jessica M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; CRUSTACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OPILIO;

EID: 19944400783     PISSN: 15407063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icb/45.1.166     Document Type: Conference Paper

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