New gammaproteobacteria associated with blood-feeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts.
New gammaproteobacteria associated with blood-feeding leeches and a broad phylogenetic analysis of leech endosymbionts.
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与吸血水蛭相关的新γ变形菌和水蛭内共生体的广泛系统发育分析。
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10.1128/aem.71.9.5219-5224.2005
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2005
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Siddall,MarkE
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Perkins,SusanL;Budinoff,RebeccaB;Siddall,MarkE
Many monophagous animals have coevolutionary relationships with bacteria that provide unavailable nutrients to the host. Frequently, these microbial partners are vertically inherited and reside in specialized structures or tissues. Here we report three new lineages of bacterial symbionts of blood-feeding leeches, one from the giant Amazonian leech,Haementeria ghilianii, and two others fromPlacobdelloidesspecies. These hosts each possess a different mycetome or esophageal organ morphology where the bacterial cells are located. DNA sequencing of the bacterial 16S rRNA genes and fluorescent in situ hybridization placed these symbionts in two separate clades in the classGammaproteobacteria. We also conducted a broad phylogenetic analysis of the herein-reported DNA sequences as well as others from bacterial symbionts reported elsewhere in the literature, including alphaproteobacterial symbionts from the leech genusPlacobdellaas well asAeromonas veroniifrom the medicinal leech,Hirudo medicinalis, and aRickettsiasp. detected inHemiclepsis marginata. Combined, these results indicate that blood-feeding leeches have forged bacterial partnerships at least five times during their evolutionary history.