THOMAS JAMES TROTT1. Boston University Marine ... crab (Callinectes sapidus) claw muscle homogenates as stimulants of feeding behavior by the ghost crab ...
Journal of Chemical Ecology, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1999
GUSTATORY RESPONSES OF GHOST CRAB Ocypode quadrata TO SEAWATER EXTRACTS AND CHEMICAL FRACTIONS OF NATURAL STIMULI
THOMAS JAMES TROTT1 Boston University Marine Program Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543 Friedman Field Station, Suffolk University RR 1, Box 102 Edmunds, Maine 04628 (Received October 28, 1996; accepted September 25, 1998) Abstract—The efficacy of seawater-extracted fresh and decomposing blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) claw muscle homogenates as stimulants of feeding behavior by the ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) was tested with cheliped flexion as a bioassay. Stimulatory components of extracts were heat-stable and
