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Identification of Aeromonas veronii genes required for colonization of the medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana.
Journal of bacteriology - 1 Oct 2007
Silver Adam C, Rabinowitz Natasha M, Küffer Stefan, Graf Joerg
Abstract excerpt
Most digestive tracts contain a complex consortium of beneficial microorganisms, making it challenging to tease apart the molecular interactions between symbiont and host. The digestive tract of Hirudo verbana, the medicinal leech, is an ideal model system because it harbors a simple microbial community in the crop, comprising the genetically amenable Aeromonas veronii and a Rikenella-like bacterium....
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