orcokinin
English
Etymology
From Orconectes limosus (taxonomic designation for the crayfish) and kinin.
Noun
orcokinin (plural orcokinins)
- Any of a family of crustacean peptides that elicit potent myotropic effects in gut tissues
- 2015 December 31, “Neuropeptidergic Signaling in the American Lobster Homarus americanus : New Insights from High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, DOI: :
- These transcripts included ones for ACP, AST-A, AST-C, bursicon α, bursicon β, CCHamide, corazonin, CCAP, CHH, DH31, diuretic hormone 44 (DH44), EH, FLRFamide, GSEFLamide, ILP, intocin, leucokinin, myosuppressin, neuroparsin, NPF, orcokinin, pigment dispersing hormone (PDH), proctolin, pyrokinin, SIFamide, sulfakinin and TRP. For most peptide families, a single pre/preprohormone-encoding transcript was identified (Table 1 and S1 Fig ).
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