Dopamine–Stimulated Limb Autotomy in the Dungeness Crab, Cancer Magister
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This study describes for the first time the ability of catecholamines to induce limb autotomy in the Dungeness crab, Cancer magister. Different concentrations of the biogenic amines dopamine (DA), serotonin, octopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, and tyramine, as well as L-dopa and catechol, were individually tested for their ability to elicit autotomy in C. magister. Only the catecholamines dopamine, norepinephrine, and epinephrine were able to stimulate autotomy, whereas the monoamines serotonin, octopamine, and tyramine were not. L-dopa and catechol were also not capable of stimulating autotomy. This suggests that the two phenyl hydroxyl groups on the catechol ring are necessary for ligand/DA receptor binding, whereas the particular biochemical properties of the ethylamine functional group confer ligand/DA receptor binding specificity. Dopamine-stimulated autotomy was concentration-dependent. The D1 receptor agonists and D1 and D2 receptor antagonists failed to respectively induce and inhibit autotomy, which may indicate the presence of a novel subtype of DA receptor in C. magister. Although the particular site of DA injection did not significantly affect the number of legs autotomized, it did appear to influence which legs autotomized. This suggests that DA acts locally, either as a neuromodulator or a neurotransmitter at local nerve synapses or neuromuscular junctions, rather than centrally through neurons descending from the central nervous system.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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