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Host Matters: Medicinal Leech Digestive-Tract Symbionts and Their Pathogenic Potential

Digestive-tract microbiota exert tremendous influence over host health. Host-symbiont model systems are studied to investigate how symbioses are initiated and maintained, as well as to identify host processes affected by resident microbiota. The medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, is an excellent model...

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Autores principales: Marden, Jeremiah N., McClure, Emily A., Beka, Lidia, Graf, Joerg
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5061737/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27790190
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2016.01569