Table 1.

Bioinformatics of putative decapod C-type allatostatin-related peptide encoding expressed sequence tags (ESTs)

Accession no.	Blast score*	E-value*
EY291152	91.3	1e–18
CN852636	90.5	2e–18
CN852647	90.5	2e–18

The Homarus americanus cDNA library from which the ESTs were derived was generated using multiple tissues (Towle and Smith, 2006). The only neural tissue present was the supraoesophageal ganglion, commonly referred to as the brain

^*ESTs identified using the deduced amino acid sequence of accession no. FE277533 (Gard et al., 2009) as a query