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allatotropins

allatotropins is the plural of allatotropin.

Meaning of allatotropin

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

Questions about allatotropins

What is allatotropins the plural of?
Allatotropins is the plural of allatotropin.

Words near allatotropins in the dictionary

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

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