allatotropin

English

allatotropin (plural allatotropins)

Any of a family of pleiotropic neuropeptides which play multiple neural, endocrine and myoactive roles in insects
- 2015 December 31, “Neuropeptidergic Signaling in the American Lobster Homarus americanus: New Insights from High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:
  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.