A study of autotomy in decapod crustacea
Autotomy is the process whereby an animal can discard a part of its body from a preformed breakage plane. This study examines the natural occurrence of limb autotomy in the crab Carcinus maenas in the Yealm estuary, Devon; and the nervous control of limb autotomy in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardu...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1977
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.455466 |