Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 7-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Breakdown and reformation of somatic muscle during the molt cycle of the land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis

Breakdown and reformation of somatic muscle during the molt cycle of the land crab, Gecarcinus... For intermolt (nongrowing) specimens of the land crab G. lateralis the amount of recoverable muscle per claw equals 0.095 ± 0.013 (propus length × propus width)3/2 gm/cm2. During the premolt period (approximately 50 days in large specimens of this animal) the quantity of muscle per chela decreases to approximately 60% the amount found in intermolt animals; during this time the fraction of protein per unit of wet weight of muscle remains constant. Therefore the decrease in wet weight represents extensive degradation of the tissue, not merely water loss. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology Wiley

Breakdown and reformation of somatic muscle during the molt cycle of the land crab, Gecarcinus lateralis

Download PDF
9 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/wiley/breakdown-and-reformation-of-somatic-muscle-during-the-molt-cycle-of-pDd60VSDBP

References (38)

Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
2471-5638
eISSN
2471-5646
DOI
10.1002/jez.1401630202
pmid
5972669
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

For intermolt (nongrowing) specimens of the land crab G. lateralis the amount of recoverable muscle per claw equals 0.095 ± 0.013 (propus length × propus width)3/2 gm/cm2. During the premolt period (approximately 50 days in large specimens of this animal) the quantity of muscle per chela decreases to approximately 60% the amount found in intermolt animals; during this time the fraction of protein per unit of wet weight of muscle remains constant. Therefore the decrease in wet weight represents extensive degradation of the tissue, not merely water loss.

Journal

The Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Ecological and Integrative Physiology – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 1966

There are no references for this article.