Novel role for Aeromonas jandaei as a digestive tract symbiont of the North American medicinal leech

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 655-658

  Siddall, Mark E ^a   Worthen, Paul L ^b   Johnson, Matthew ^a   Graf, Joerg ^b  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA SEQUENCES; DRUG PRODUCTS; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MICROBIOLOGY;

BIOCHEMICAL TESTS; LEECHES; MACROBDELLA DECORA;

BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING;

BACTERIUM; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; ENDOSYMBIONT; HOST SPECIFICITY; LEECH;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS JANDAEI; ARTICLE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; LEECH; MACROBDELLA DECORA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIONT;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LEECHES; NORTH AMERICA; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SYMBIOSIS;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS JANDAEI; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; MACROBDELLA DECORA;

EID: 33846409492     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01282-06     Document Type: Article

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