New gammaproteobacteria associated with blood-feeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 71, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 5219-5224

  Perkins, Susan L ^a   Budinoff, Rebecca B ^a   Siddall, Mark E ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DNA; RNA; TISSUE;

AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIAL SYMBIONTS; BLOOD-FEEDING LEECHES; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA;

MICROBIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

LEECH;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; ESOPHAGUS; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE SEQUENCE; HAEMENTARIA GHILIANII; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEECH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MYCETOMA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLACOBDELLOIDES; RICKETTSIA; RNA GENE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEECHES; LEECHING; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROMONAS VERONII; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; HAEMENTERIA GHILIANII; HEMICLEPSIS MARGINATA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; PLACOBDELLA; RICKETTSIA SP.;

EID: 25144440668     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.71.9.5219-5224.2005     Document Type: Article

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