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Sex Hormone in Crabs’ Eyes Produces Body Parts Essential for Reproduction – Nature World News

By February 4, 2014News
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Female blue crab’s eyes play a role in growing body parts that enable the crabs to mate and reproduce, according to researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET).

It has been known that the crabs’ eyeballs produce hormones responsible for the growth and development for a crab from adolescence to adulthood, but this new find is noteworthy for its necessity in crab motherhood.

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