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ArticleThe Biological bulletin2012

Investigation into the physiologies of Aeromonas veronii in vitro and inside the digestive tract of the medicinal leech using RNA-seq.

Lindsey Bomar, Joerg Graf

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Article in The Biological bulletin, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Lindsey BomarDepartment of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 06269, USA.
Joerg Graf
University of Connecticut · US

Funding

Functional Analysis of a Digestive-Tract Microbiome During Dietary ChangesR01GM095390 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT STORRS · PI GRAF, JOERG, VISSCHER, PIETER T · 2011 to 2014
$1.5M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095390
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Host-associated microbial communities are widespread in nature and vital to the health and fitness of the host. Deciphering the physiology of the microbiome in vivo is critical to understanding the molecular basis of the symbiosis. Recently, the development and application of high-throughput sequencing techniques, particularly RNA-seq, for studying microbial communities has enabled researchers to address not only which microbes are present in a given community but also how the community functions. For microbes that can also be cultivated in the laboratory, RNA-seq provides the opportunity to identify genes that are differentially expressed during symbiosis by comparing in vitro to in vivo transcriptomes. In the current study, we used RNA-seq to identify genes expressed by the digestive-tract microbiome of the medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, and by one of the two dominant symbionts, Aeromonas veronii, in a rich medium. We used a comparative approach to identify genes differentially expressed during symbiosis and gain insight into the symbiont's physiology in vivo. Notable findings include evidence for the symbionts experiencing environmental stress, performing arginine catabolism, and expressing noncoding RNAs that are implicated in stationary phase survival, a state in which A. veronii persists for months within the host.

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Stress, PhysiologicalSymbiosisTranscriptomeAeromonasAnimalsGastrointestinal TractGene Expression ProfilingLeeches

Identifiers

PMID22983040
PMCPMC3732745
OpenAlexW2161091882

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