Inhibition of molting by cadmium in the crab Chasmagnathus granulata (Decapoda Brachyura).

The effect of cadmium on molting of the estuarine crab Chasmagnathus granulata was assayed. Adult males were eyestalk-ablated, in order to synchronically induce molting, and were then chronically exposed to cadmium at 0.25 or 0.