Selected defense- and neuropeptides from ant species characterized by genome-mining.

*not applicable, peptide class generally contains no cysteines in the mature peptides;#multiple mature allatostatin peptides are encoded by the same precursor protein, order of presented length of peptides are in order as presented in Figure 4;$5 cysteines were identified in the mature form of H.saltator DEF2, which likely indicates a partial sequence;&GeneWise prediction was no successful, but precursor sequences could be established manually from tBLASTn results;+during the preparation/revision of this manuscript the following peptide-/receptor sequences (partial or complete) were released on UniProtKB: diuretic hormones (C.floridanus: tr|E2AZE8; H.saltator: tr|E2C6V6, tr|E2B7W2), vasotocin-neurophysin (H.saltator: EFN79183), eclosion hormones (C.floridanus: tr|E2AXD4; H.saltator: tr|E2BSX6), ion-transport peptides (C.floridanus: tr|E2AP65; H.saltator: tr|E2BEL2), neuroparsins-A (C.floridanus: tr|E1ZXL4; H.saltator: tr|E2BLJ9), abaecin (H.saltator: tr|E2B7M5) and defensins (C.floridanus: tr|E2AKI0, tr|E2AVT3; H.saltator: tr|E2BDP6), for reference see [16];**multiple mature peptides can be cleaved from the same precursor protein, see [33], [35], [36];##eight tachykinin peptides of equal length are encoded by the precursor peptide, for order see Figure S5.