During the course of some investigations of ex perimental lathyrism in salamanders, we noted and reported that, if the eggs of the salamander Ambysioma punctatum were placed in solutions of the lathyrism factor, the larval forms exhibited tumors of the notochord (2) . Since that time, no reports have appeared concerning the production of experimental ehordomas in other animals. In our original ...

The presence of boundaries to dispersal has been recently documented for many Indo-West Pacific (IWP) species with planktonic propagules and a widespread distribution. We studied the phylogeography of the mangrove crab Neosarmatium meinerti (Brachyura: Sesarmidae) and the phylogenetic relationship to its presumed sister species N. fourmanoiri in the IWP in order to compare intraspecific with in...