Stratified bacterial community in the bladder of the medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 11, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2758-2770

  Kikuchi, Yoshitomo ^a,b   Bomar, Lindsey ^a   Graf, Joerg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; DNA SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEECH; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEOBACTERIA; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BACTEROIDETES; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; LEECHES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROTEOBACTERIA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

ALPHAPROTEOBACTERIA; ANIMALIA; BACILLI (CLASS); BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BACTEROIDETES; BDELLOVIBRIO; BETAPROTEOBACTERIA; DELTAPROTEOBACTERIA; HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HIRUDO VERBANA; OCHROBACTRUM; PROTEOBACTERIA; SPHINGOBACTERIUM;

EID: 70349666830     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-2920.2009.02004.x     Document Type: Article

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