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allatotropin

allatotropin noun: any of a family of pleiotropic neuropeptides which play multiple neural, endocrine and myoactive roles in insects.

Noun

allatotropin (plural allatotropins)

  1. Any of a family of pleiotropic neuropeptides which play multiple neural, endocrine and myoactive roles in insects
    • Whether or not members of the other peptide families are present in the lobster remains an open question, but given their detection in other crustaceans, genes encoding at least allatotropin, ETH and RYamide are also predicted to exist in this species.2015 December 31, “Neuropeptidergic Signaling in the American Lobster Homarus americanus: New Insights from High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Forms of allatotropin

pluralallatotropins

Origin of allatotropin

From (corpus) allatum + -tropin.

Questions about allatotropin

What does allatotropin mean?
Allatotropin means any of a family of pleiotropic neuropeptides which play multiple neural, endocrine and myoactive roles in insects.
What part of speech is allatotropin?
Allatotropin is a noun.
What is the plural of allatotropin?
The plural of allatotropin is allatotropins.

Words near allatotropin in the dictionary

  1. allatostatic
  2. allatostatin
  3. allatostatinergic
  4. allatostatins
  5. allatotropic
  6. allatotropin
  7. allatotropins
  8. allatrate
  9. Allatt
  10. allaud
  11. Allawah

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