Evolutionarily ancient role of cholecystokinin-type neuropeptide signalling as an inhibitory regulator of feeding-related processes revealed in an echinoderm
A. B. Tinoco, A. Barreiro-Iglesias, L. A. Yanez Guerra, J. Delroisse, Y. Zhang, E. F. Gunner, C. Zampronio, A. M. Jones, M. Egertova, M. R. Elphick
The paper identifies CCK/SK-type neuropeptides in starfish, showing they inhibit feeding-related processes through muscle contraction and retraction.
bioRxiv · Dec 11, 2020Physiology