1969
DOI: 10.2307/1540100
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AN AUTORADIOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS OF MELANOGENESIS IN THE FIDDLER CRAB,UCA PUGNAX(S. I. SMITH)

Abstract: The epidermis plays a central role in the metabolic activities of Crustacea. One facet of these activities involves pigment cells in which two distinct phases of behavior can be distinguished: (1) physiological color change, a rapid mobilization of pigment leading to pigment migration, probably within pre-established cellular channels, and (2), morphological color change, a slower modification of the quantity of pigment per chromatophore or of chromatophore number per unit area of epidermis (Brown, 1934; Green… Show more

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