Relative Growth in the Pacific Edible Crab, Cancer magister

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1137son,' and Haggard and Greenberg5 i. e., that the formation of methemoglobin by methylene blue and its combination with CN removes the latter from the blood stream is untenable. Furthermore, the objection of Henderson' that methylene 'blue because of methemoglobin formation cannot be used in CO poisoning is also baseless, since the catalytic action of methylene blue as a reversible oxidation-reduction dye is responsible for recovery of the animal, and not its ability to form stoichometric equivalents of methemoglobin. PRelative Growth in the Pacific Edible Crab, Cancer magister

Relative growth of Uca burgersi (Crustacea, Ocypodidae) from two mangroves in the southeastern Brazilian coast

“…Some structures grow in distinct proportions to each other, which allow to observe differences in the growth rate when two body dimensions are compared (HARTNOLL, 1974). The extensive literature on the relative growth of brachyuran crabs presents the theorical basis on allometry (HARTNOLL, 1982;HUXLEY & RICHARDS, 1931;TEISSIER, 1933TEISSIER, , 1960WEYMOUTH & MACKAY, 1936), beyond some aspects related to the determination of size at onset of sexual maturity (WEYMOUTH & MACKAY, 1934;GORE & SCOTTO, 1983). The great number of papers developed about brachyurans relative growth are probably due to the possibility of estimating the sexual maturity in crabs, that is very useful, particularly, in the species of economic interest (LEWIS, 1977;PINHEIRO & FRANSOZO, 1993;MANTELATTO & FRANSOZO, 1994;SANTOS et al, 1995).…”