With more than 700 described species, leeches include morphological, physiological, and
behavioral diversity and occur in terrestrial and aquatic habitats, including freshwater …

Background Hirudinaria manillensis is an ephemeral, blood-sucking ectoparasite,
possessing anticoagulant capacities with potential medical applications. Analysis of codon …

Leeches play important roles in food webs due to their abundance, diversity and feeding
habits. Studies using invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA) extracted from leech gut contents to …

The European medicinal leech has been used for medicinal purposes for millennia, and
continues to be used today in modern hospital settings. Its utility is granted by the extremely …

Amphinomids, more commonly known as fireworms, are a basal lineage of marine annelids
characterized by the presence of defensive dorsal calcareous chaetae, which break off upon …

ABSTRACT Invertebrate Zoology: A Tree of Life Approach is a comprehensive and
authoritative textbook adopting an explicitly phylogenetic organization. Most of the classical …

Bloodfeeding leeches have powerful anticoagulants that allow them to feed for extended
periods. However, many leech species are predatory rather than bloodfeeding. It is not …

Whitmania pigra has been used as a traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for promoting
blood circulation, alleviating blood coagulation, activating meridians and relieving stasis for …

Transcriptome sequencing data (6.5 Gb) of the salivary glands of the haematophagous
leech Hirudo nipponia was obtained by using the BGIseq-500 platform. After identification …

Abstract Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinea) possess powerful salivary anticoagulants and,
accordingly, are frequently employed in modern, authoritative medicine. Members of the …