The Mexican leech Haementeria officinalis and its nutritional symbiont as a model system for the study of strict blood-feeding animal-microbe symbioses and bacteriocyte development

Project: Research funding

Discovery of a novel symbiotic lineage associated with a hematophagous leech from the genus Haementeria
Sosa-Jiménez, V. M., Kvist, S., Manzano-Marín, A. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A., 6 Jun 2024, In: Microbiology Spectrum. 12, 11 p., e04286-23.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Open Access
Evolution of an Alternative Genetic Code in the Providencia Symbiont of the Hematophagous Leech Haementeria acuecueyetzin
Manzano-Marín, A., Kvist, S. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A., 10 Sept 2023, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 15, 9, 11 p., evad164.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Open Access
Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants
Kvist, S., Manzano-Marín, A., Carle, D. D., Trontelj, P. & Siddall, M. E., 18 Jun 2020, In: Scientific Reports. 10, 1, 11 p., 9885.
Publications: Contribution to journal › Article › Peer Reviewed

Open Access

Genomics and evoluton of symbionts in strict blood-feeding leeches
Alejandro Manzano Marín (Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Genomics and evolution of bacterial symbionts of leeches
Alejandro Manzano Marín (Invited speaker)
27 Feb 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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