When the hatching parasite eggs of the " Sacculina " are ready to emerge from the brood pouch of " Sacculina ", the crab performs a similar process.
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When the hatching parasite eggs of the " Sacculina " are ready to emerge from the brood pouch of " Sacculina ", the crab performs a similar process.
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The female " Sacculina " then forces the crab's body to release hormones, causing it to act like a female crab, even to the point of performing female mating dances.
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Although " Sacculina " did not mature in any of the native crabs, developing reproductive sacs were observed inside a few " Metacarcinus magister " and " Hemigrapsus oregonensis ".
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Any potential benefits of using " Sacculina " to control " C . maenas " on the west coast of North America would need to be weighed against these potential non-target impacts.
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:I don't think the parasitic barnacle sacculina driectly attacks the crab's brain, but it does attack its gonads to sterilise it, and then uses the crab's mating behaviour for its own procreation .-- ColinFine 23 : 41, 17 December 2006 ( UTC)
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In this speech, McCulloch compared the family to the Sacculina, a crustacean hereditary tendency . . . [ which is ] a type of degradation through parasitism, or pauperism . " McCulloch put the number of families in the study at thirty, with the Ishmaels being the central, the oldest and the most widely ramified family .
