… the first time the digestive-tract microbiota of the medicinal leech has been analyzed using
… a monospecific digestive-tract symbiosis between Aeromonas bacteria and the leech. …

… Digestive-tract microbiota exert tremendous influence over … regarding microbial symbioses
within the leech digestive tract, … RNAseq transcriptome analysis revealed dramatically higher …

… (10, 43), and diverse microbiota have been isolated from the … models for digestive-tract
symbioses with bacteria (17). The … (FISH), which revealed detailed population dynamics of the …

… laboratory conditions, culture-independent approaches are … potential of the leech gut
microbiome to other digestive tract … of the leech as a model for digestive-tract symbioses in …

… 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 …

… The digestive-tract microbiota of hirudinid leeches is of particular interest because of the …
the culture-independent profiling of microbial community complexity and diversity have revealed …

… reveals that the microbiota of the medicinal leech is not as simple as many believe, and the
microbiota … Our culture-independent studies were more revealing. Our 16S rRNA gene clone …

… However, the microbiome of medicinal leeches collected directly … verbana, using the
culture-dependent and culture-independent … Nevertheless, all bacterial taxa revealed by culturing …

… Culture-independent characterization of the digestive-tract microbiota of the medicinal
leech reveals a tripartite symbiosis. Appl Environ Microbiol 2006; 72:4775 - 81; http://dx.doi.org/…

… interactions underlying the symbiosis. Due to its simple gut … sequencing, is a culture-independent
approach for determining … The expression data revealed highly expressed hydrolytic …