Roy A. Stein, Michael L. Murphy, John J. Magnuson, External Morphological Changes Associated with Sexual Maturity in the Crayfish (Orconectes propinquus), The American Midland Naturalist, Vol. 97, No. 2 (Apr., 1977), pp. 495-502
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Stein et al. (1977) studied this question.