allatotropin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Any of a family of pleiotropic neuropeptides which play multiple neural, endocrine and myoactive roles in insects

Word forms

allatotropin allatotropins

Etymology

From (corpus) allatum + -tropin.

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