Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae)

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 918-933

  Kvist, Sebastian ^a,c   Min, Gi Sik ^b   Siddall, Mark E ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b Inha University   (South Korea)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; Evolution; FEL; Hirudinida; Medicinal leeches; PARRIS; REL; Selection pressures; SLAC

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886238866     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.480     Document Type: Article

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