Investigation into the Physiologies of Aeromonas veronii in vitro and Inside the Digestive Tract of the Medicinal Leech Using RNA-seq

L Bomar, J Graf - The Biological Bulletin, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
… For microbes that can also be cultivated in the laboratory, RNA-seq provides the … we used
RNA-seq to identify genes expressed by the digestive-tract microbiome of the medicinal leech, …

Comparative transcriptomic analysis reveals the mechanism of leech environmental adaptation

Z Liu, F Zhao, X Tong, K Liu, B Wang, L Yang, T Ning… - Gene, 2018 - Elsevier
… The medicinal leeches have been widely utilized in medical procedures for … of leech
published online including the medicinal leech (Hirudo medicinalis) and some other leeches. …

De novo assembly and comparative transcriptome characterization of Poecilobdella javanica provide insight into blood feeding of medicinal leeches

Z Liu, Y Wang, X Tong, Y Su, L Yang, D Wang… - Molecular omics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
… Among these steps, the RNA sequencing and the following … of RNA-seq data NGS technology
in a non-model leech species. … used leech in the mainstream of modern medical practice. …

[HTML][HTML] Transcriptomic analysis of the salivary gland of medicinal leech Hirudo nipponia

Z Lu, P Shi, H You, Y Liu, S Chen - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… ’s medicinal importance. In this study, we performed transcriptome profiling of the salivary
glands of medicinal leech … Is the Subject Area "RNA sequencing" applicable to this article? Yes …

[HTML][HTML] Draft genome sequences of Hirudo medicinalis and salivary transcriptome of three closely related medicinal leeches

VV Babenko, OV Podgorny, VA Manuvera… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
medicine, and microbiology. Like other hematophagous species, blood-sucking leeches,
belonging to the subclass Hirudinea (true leechesleeches and, in particular, medicinal leeches, …

[HTML][HTML] An annotated CNS transcriptome of the medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana: De novo sequencing to characterize genes associated with nervous system activity

AJ Northcutt, EK Fischer, JG Puhl, KA Mesce… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
… We also note that while previous transcriptome assemblies for medicinal leeches are labeled
H. medicinalis, the sequenced organisms are instead likely H. verbana due to commercial …

[HTML][HTML] Construction of a medicinal leech transcriptome database and its application to the identification of leech homologs of neural and innate immune genes

ER Macagno, T Gaasterland, L Edsall, V Bafna… - BMC genomics, 2010 - Springer
… the medicinal leech, an organism with a long history of contributions in neuroscience. The
medicinal leech… of the medicinal leech are genomic and transcriptomic sequence databases of …

[HTML][HTML] De novo transcriptome assembly databases for the central nervous system of the medicinal leech

D Hibsh, H Schori, S Efroni, O Shefi - Scientific data, 2015 - nature.com
… In the study presented here, we chose to focus on the transcriptome of the medicinal leech,
… The leech CNS is composed of 6 fused ganglia at the head, 21 highly similar body ganglia …

[HTML][HTML] Comparative genomics of two Asian medicinal leeches Hirudo nipponia and Hirudo tianjinensis: With emphasis on antithrombotic genes and their …

F Zhao, Z Huang, B He, K Liu, J Li, Z Liu… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
… important medical and pharmaceutical values in antithrombotic treatments. Here, we provide
a high quality genome of two Asian medicinal leeches Hirudo … DNA and RNA sequencing

Transcriptomic profiling and the first spatial expression analysis of candidate genes in the salivary gland of the East Asian medicinal leech, Hirudo nipponia

JH Kim, CJ Lee, YS Yu, YP Aryal, S Kim, JY Suh… - Developmental & …, 2024 - Elsevier
leeches, we demonstrated the localization of their expression sites in the salivary gland of an
important medicinal leech in … proteins and compounds with potential medicinal application. …