| Literature DB >> 19648363 |
Rita V M Rio1, Michele Maltz, Benjamin McCormick, Alexander Reiss, Joerg Graf.
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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.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19648363 PMCID: PMC2772434 DOI: 10.1128/AEM.01129-09
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Appl Environ Microbiol ISSN: 0099-2240 Impact factor: 4.792