Table 1.

Sources of antimicrobial peptides

Sr. no	Source of antimicrobial peptides	Name of antimicrobial peptides
1	Insects	Cecropin A, ceratotoxin, stomoxyn, spinigerenin, thanatin, heliomicin, sapecin, defensin A, smD1, gallerimycin, termicin, royalisin, drosomycin, drosocin, metchnikowin, apidaecin IA,abaecin, formaecin, lebocin, pyrrhocoricintin, attacins, coleoptericin, diptericin (Song and Zheng 2015)
2	Amphibians	Magainins (Oyinloye et al. 2015).
3	Plants	Plant defensins, cyclotides, 2S albumin, lipid transfer proteins, hevein-like proteins knotins, snakins (Hintz et al. 2015)
4	Milk	β-lactoglobulin, αs2-casein, β-casein (Fadaei 2012)
5	Bacteria	Lacticin 3147, Nisin, Lactococcin B, Leucocin A, Enterocin A, Pediocin A,Pediocin F, Pediocin PA-1,Mesentericin Y105, Pediocin AcH, Acidophilin, Acidolin, Lactacin B, Lactacin F, Lactobacillin, Lactobrevin, Reuterin, Bulgarin, Plantaricin SIK-83, Plantaricin A, Plantaricin B, Lactolin, Lactolin 27, Helveticin J, Lactobin A, Sonorensin (Chopra et al. 2014)