Symbiont succession during embryonic development of the European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 75, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 6890-6895

  Rio, Rita V M ^a   Maltz, Michele ^b   McCormick, Benjamin ^a   Reiss, Alexander ^b   Graf, Joerg ^b  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGESTIVE TRACT; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH DYNAMICS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITIES; QUANTITATIVE PCR;

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM;

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COLONIZATION; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT; LEECH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT;

ARTICLE; BLADDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HIRUDO VERBANA; LEECH; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SYMBIONT;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; LEECHES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S;

HIRUDINIDA; HIRUDO MEDICINALIS; HIRUDO VERBANA;

EID: 70350489161     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01129-09     Document Type: Article

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