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SUBMITTER: Rio RV
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2772434 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rio Rita V M RV Maltz Michele M McCormick Benjamin B Reiss Alexander A Graf Joerg J
Applied and environmental microbiology 20090731 21
The European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, harbors simple microbial communities in the digestive tract and bladder. The colonization history, infection frequency, and growth dynamics of symbionts through host embryogenesis are described using diagnostic PCR and quantitative PCR. Symbiont species displayed diversity in temporal establishment and proliferation through leech development. ...[more]