title: Peptide and protein pheromones in molluscs.
abstract: Pheromones have been implicated in the control of a number of behaviors in molluscs, but few peptide pheromones have been characterized in these animals. Peptide pheromones include: (1) a family of water-borne peptide pheromonal attractants (attractins) in the gastropod Aplysia that are released during egg laying and attract other Aplysia to form egg-laying and mating aggregations; (2) a tetrapeptide (ILME) in the cephalopod Sepia that elutes from egg masses and is thought to be involved in the transport of oocytes in the genital tract during egg laying; and (3) a Sepia sperm-attracting peptide (SepSAP; PIDPGVamide) that is released from oocytes during egg laying to facilitate external fertilization.
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Life Sciences, and the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel. avy@mail.biu.ac.il
authors.forename: Abraham J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Susswein
authors.forename: Gregg T
authors.initials: GT
authors.lastname: Nagle
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D008974:Mollusca; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D010675:Pheromones / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012098:Reproduction; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D014867:Water
chemical_list: D010455:Peptides; D010675:Pheromones; D014867:Water