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Characterization of shed medicinal leech mucus reveals a diverse microbiota
Microbial transmission through mucosal-mediated mechanisms is widespread throughout the animal kingdom. One example of this occurs with Hirudo verbana, the medicinal leech, where host attraction to shed conspecific mucus facilitates horizontal transmission of a predominant gut symbiont, the Gammapro...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4288373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25620963 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2014.00757 |