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Temperature treatment to inhibit extrusion of the polar body of the egg was first used on a lower crustacean,Artemia salina (Gross, 1932), and then was used for inducing triploids of amphibian (Frankhauser and Griffiths, 1939), fish (Svardson, 1945), and mammal (Beatly and Fishchberg, 1949).
So far, induction of triploidy has been extensively used to obtain sterile or quick-growth individuals in fish (Swarup, 1956; Lincoln, and Scott, 1983 and Thorgaard, 1986) and mollusk (Stanley et al., 1984), but similar work has not been reported on crab, a higher crustancean.
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Renhou, L., Jing, Z., Xiangyu, L. et al. An experiment on induction of triploidy inEriocheir japonicus hepuensis Dai by heat treatment. Chin. J. Ocean. Limnol. 11, 21–24 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02850724
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