Characterization of the digestive-tract microbiota of Hirudo orientalis, a European medicinal leech

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 74, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 6151-6154

  Laufer, Alison S ^a,c   Siddall, Mark E ^b   Graf, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROMONAS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EUROPEAN; MICROBIOTA;

BACTERIOLOGY;

BACTERIAL DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; LEECH;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS VERONII; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; GAMMAPROTEOBACTERIA; GYRB GENE; INTESTINE FLORA; LEECH; LEECHING; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; RNA GENE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AEROMONAS; AEROMONAS JANDAEI; AEROMONAS VERONII; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HIRUDO VERBANA; RIKENELLA;

BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; EUROPE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; GENES, RRNA; LEECHES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 54449086201     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00795-08     Document Type: Article

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