A combined strategy of neuropeptide prediction and tandem mass spectrometry identifies evolutionarily conserved ancient neuropeptides in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis

• Eisuke Hayakawa ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eisuke.hayakawa@oist.jp

  Affiliations Research Group of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Okinawa, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1054-4266

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• Hiroshi Watanabe,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Evolutionary Neurobiology Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science & Technology, Okinawa, Japan, Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Gerben Menschaert,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Laboratory for Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

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• Thomas W. Holstein,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Organismal Studies (COS), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany

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• Geert Baggerman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations CFP/Ceproma, University Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium, VITO, Applied Bio & molecular Systems (ABS), Mol, Belgium

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• Liliane Schoofs

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group of Functional Genomics and Proteomics, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

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