Meaning of orcokinin | Babel Free

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Any of a family of crustacean peptides that elicit potent myotropic effects in gut tissues

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“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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