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Bacterial symbioses of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana.
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- Circuit-constrained molecular neuroethology in the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Review
- Gut microbiota and metabolic function in leeches with distinct feeding niches.BMC microbiology · 2026Article
- Hidden highways: fungi associated with glossiphoniid leeches.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- Genetic Variation and Gene Expression of the Antimicrobial Peptide Macins in Asian Buffalo Leech (Biology · 2025Article
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- Microbiota Dysbiosis inMicroorganisms · 2025Article
- ERGA-BGE reference genome ofOpen research Europe · 2025Article
- How It All Begins: Bacterial Factors Mediating the Colonization of Invertebrate Hosts by Beneficial Symbionts.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2022Review
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- TheInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2020Article
- Comparative genomics of Aeromonas veronii: Identification of a pathotype impacting aquaculture globally.PloS one · 2019Article
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- Model systems for the study of how symbiotic associations between animals and extracellular bacterial partners are established and maintained.Drug discovery today. Disease models · 2018Article
- Host Matters: Medicinal Leech Digestive-Tract Symbionts and Their Pathogenic Potential.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Review
- The Animal Model Determines the Results ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
- Genome sequence of Candidatus Arsenophonus lipopteni, the exclusive symbiont of a blood sucking fly Lipoptena cervi (Diptera: Hippoboscidae).Standards in genomic sciences · 2016Article
- Characterization of the Core and Caste-Specific Microbiota in the Termite, Reticulitermes flavipes.Frontiers in microbiology · 2016Article
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- Mucinivorans hirudinis gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic, mucin-degrading bacterium isolated from the digestive tract of the medicinal leech Hirudo verbana.International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology · 2015Article
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Abstract
Gastrointestinal microbiomes play important roles in the health and nutrition of animals and humans. The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, serves as a powerful model for the study of microbial symbioses of the gut, due to its naturally limited microbiome compared with other popular models, the ability to cultivate the most abundant microbes, and genetically manipulate one of them, Aeromonas veronii. This review covers the relevance and application of leeches in modern medicine as well as recent discoveries detailing the nature of the gut microbiome. Additionally, the dual life-style of A. veronii allows one to do direct comparisons between colonization factors for beneficial and pathogenic associations, and relevant findings are detailed with respect to their role within the host and pathogenicity to other animals.
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