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

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ERGA-BGE reference genome of Hirudo verbana, a once neglected freshwater haematophagous European medicinal leech
Manzano-Marín, A., Böhne, A., Monteiro, R., Marcussen, T., Struck, T. H., Oomen, R. A., Howard, C., Howe, K., Blaxter, M., McCarthy, S., Wood, J. M. D., Martin, F., Lazar, A., Haggerty, L. & Bortoluzzi, C. (Corresponding author), 22 Dec 2025, In: Open Research Europe. 5, 14 p., 395.
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Open Access
Discovery of a novel symbiotic lineage associated with a hematophagous leech from the genus Haementeria
Sosa-Jiménez, V. M., Kvist, S., Manzano-Marín, A. (Corresponding author) & Oceguera-Figueroa, A., 6 Jun 2024, In: Microbiology Spectrum. 12, 11 p., e04286-23.
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Evolution of an Alternative Genetic Code in the Providencia Symbiont of the Hematophagous Leech Haementeria acuecueyetzin
Manzano-Marín, A. (Corresponding author), Kvist, S. & Oceguera-Figueroa, A., 10 Sept 2023, In: Genome Biology and Evolution. 15, 9, 11 p., evad164.
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Blood-feeding leeches: Bacterial solutions to a haematophagous diet
Manzano Marín, A. (Keynote speaker)
12 May 2026
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Symbiotic associations in blood-feeding leeches: genome evolution, nutrition, and dietary management
Manzano Marín, A. (Invited speaker)
6 May 2026
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science
Genomics and evoluton of symbionts in strict blood-feeding leeches
Manzano Marín, A. (Invited speaker)
10 Jul 2023
Activity: Talks and presentations › Talk or oral contribution › Science to Science

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