The increasing demands for medicinal leeches around the world has increased the need for
new sources of leeches. To assess the feasibility of culturing a new medicinal leech species …

Complete Genome Sequence of the Novel Leech Symbiont Mucinivorans hirudinis M3T |
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Species belonging to the genus Rahnella are dominant members of the core gut bacteriome
of Dendroctonus-bark beetles, a group of insects that includes the most destructive agents of …

To understand changes in the faecal flora, one has to know the physiological flora first. The
aim of this paper is to give insight into the changes of the culturable faecal flora of European …

We characterized the intracellular symbiotic bacteria of the hematophagous glossiphoniid
leeches Placobdelloides siamensis and a Parabdella sp. These leeches have a specialized …

To uncover the diversity of gut microbiota in fall webworm Hyphantria cunea larvae after
ingesting different host plants, the 16S rDNA V3-V4 region of gut microbiota was determined …

Gut microbial communities of the honeybee, Apis mellifera L. have vital functions in food
digestion, providing essential nutrients, improving immune system against pathogens, and …

After a short introduction to the classification of medicinal leeches, their historical use in
phlebotomy (blood-letting) and contemporary use in neurobiology and medicine are …

Intestinal microbial community structure of earthworm Eisenia fetida was investigated based
on 16S rDNA analysis. One hundred different colonies grown on Brain Heart Infusion …

Background: Herbivorous insects are one of the main biological threats to crops. One such
group of insects, stink bugs, do not eat large amounts of tissue when feeding on soybean …