Table 2.

Mussel calcitonin-like peptides.

CALCIa	H-ACNLGLNSHHCALADLDNQLQSREWLSNGHSP-NH2
CALCIIa	H-CTWGGGMSDEMCSTVDIDEIQRSFQVIHDRNSP-NH2
Human	H-CGNLSTCMLGTYTQDFNKFHTFPQTAIGVGAP-NH2
Salmon	H-CSNLSTCVLGKLSQELHKLQTYPRTNTGSGTP-NH2

Mussel peptides were synthesised using as the amino acid sequence the deduced mature peptide determined by analysis of the full-length peptide precursor transcripts (Supplementary Figure 2). The complete sequence of the human and salmon peptides is also indicated