Kurup K N, Adiyodi R G
Gen Comp Endocrinol. 1984 Dec;56(3):433-43. doi: 10.1016/0016-6480(84)90086-8.
In female Paratelphusa, there appear to be two alternating dominant physiological tendencies, one biased in favor of reproductive (ovarian) growth and another biased in favor of somatic (regenerative) growth. Multiple limb autotomy (MA), long known to stimulate somatic growth, did so only if the crab was physiologically in the somatic phase. Vitellogenesis was accelerated if the crab was in the reproductive phase at the time of MA. Males and females were found to pass through roughly comparable physiological phases during different seasons of the year. It is not known whether MA has a spermatogenesis-accelerating effect in males, but its effect on somatic growth was dominant while the male was in the somatic phase.
在雌性拟沼虾中，似乎存在两种交替的主要生理倾向，一种倾向于生殖（卵巢）生长，另一种倾向于体细胞（再生）生长。多肢自切（MA）长期以来已知会刺激体细胞生长，但只有当螃蟹处于生理上的体细胞阶段时才会如此。如果螃蟹在进行多肢自切时处于生殖阶段，卵黄发生会加速。研究发现，雄性和雌性在一年中的不同季节经历大致相似的生理阶段。尚不清楚多肢自切对雄性精子发生是否有促进作用，但在雄性处于体细胞阶段时，其对体细胞生长的影响占主导地位。
