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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…·M. R. Elphick
The paper identifies CCK/SK-type neuropeptides in starfish, showing they inhibit feeding-related processes through muscle contraction and retraction.
DOI 10.7554/elife.65667