orcokinins

Noun

orcokinin (plural orcokinins)

1. Any of a family of crustacean peptides that elicit potent myotropic effects in gut tissues
   • 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...2015 December 31, “Neuropeptidergic Signaling in the American Lobster Homarus americanus : New Insights from High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI