Experimente über den Farbwechsel der Crustaceen

Light, Eyestalk Chemical, and Certain Other Factors as Regulators of Community Activity for the Crayfish, Cambarus virilis Hagen

“…It has been found that intervals between moults are decreased by a number of weeks or Ill-Onths when eyestalks are removed from decapods (Smith 1940, Megusar 1912, Kleinholz & Bourquin 1941a . It has been suggested that this effect is a result of removal of an organ that normally checks metabolic rate (Menke· 1911, Plankemann 1935, cf., Hanstrom 1939.…”