… based on culture‐independent technical. And it is also the … evolved a long‐term symbiosis
with their digestive tract (gut) micro… The present study was intended to reveal the bacterial and …

… also been detected in culture-independent studies of the ILF of … greater than for the
digestive-tract microbiome. Further research … revealed a conservation of gut and bladder …

… digestive tract of the North American medicinal leech Macrobdella decora. The gut microbiome
of the medicinal leech … Several genes implicated in virulence and symbiosis were found, …

… Biochemical analysis reveals that isolates from unused leech … the digestive tract of leech
after treatment. In the present experiment, … Such gut microbes are normal flora of them or might …

… of blood-sucking leeches exhibit a strong symbiotic effect [17]; … The dominant phyla in the
digestive tract of H. nipponia … OTUs of leech fecal microbiota in FW leeches and SW leeches. (…

… mainly on intestinal symbiotic bacteria, as the leeches lack heme-… PCA and NMDS analysis
showed low similarity between the gut … from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech, Hirudo …

… , the medicinal leech: a novel model for digestive tract associations. Infect… Culture- independent
characterization of the digetive- tract microbiota of the medicinal leech reveals a tripartite …

… We will henceforth refer to these as closed symbioses and to … focusing on Drosophila
melanogaster and its microbiota … in the digestive tract of the medical leech Hirudo verbana (…

… , yet symbiotic associations between them and beneficial bacteria have not yet been explored.
This study describes the microbiome … component of the leech digestive tract that stores the …

… It is known about the chemoautotroph-animal symbiosis … bacterium from the digestive tract
of medicinal leeches. The cultured … In the chironomid microbiome, we identified three OTUs of …