orcokinin

English

Etymology

From Orconectes limosus ("a species of crayfish") and kinin.

Noun

orcokinin (plural orcokinins)

1. 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^[1], →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 ).