Culture-independent characterization of the digestive-tract microbiota of the medicinal leech reveals a tripartite symbiosis

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 72, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 4775-4781

  Worthen, Paul L ^a   Gode, Cindy J ^a,b   Graf, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; BLOOD; CLONING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DRUG THERAPY; GAMMA RAYS; RNA;

INTESTINUM COMMUNITY; MEDICINAL LEECH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SYMBIONT HOST INTERACTIONS;

BIODIVERSITY;

RNA 16S;

BACTERIUM; HOST-SYMBIONT INTERACTION; LEECH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROMONAS VERONII; ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTEROIDETES; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GENE LIBRARY; INTESTINE FLORA; LEECH; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA GENE; SYMBIONT; SYMBIOSIS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; FIRMICUTES; FUSOBACTERIA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; RIKENELLACEAE;

EID: 33746061685     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00356-06     Document Type: Article

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