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 Information

LEECHSYMBIO

Grant agreement ID: 840270

DOI 10.3030/840270

Project closed

EC signature date 10 April 2019

Start date 15 January 2020

End date 11 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost € 186 167,04

EU contribution € 186 167,04

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITAT WIEN
Austria

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Mitogenome of the blood feeding leech Haementeria acuecueyetzin (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae) from Tabasco, Mexico

Author(s): Víctor M. Sosa-Jiménez, G. Torres-Carrera, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Sebastian Kvist, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa
Published in: Mitochondrial DNA Part B, Issue 5(3), 2020, Page(s) 3328-3330, ISSN 2380-2359
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23802359.2020.1814888

Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants

Author(s): Sebastian Kvist, Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Danielle de Carle, Peter Trontelj, Mark E. Siddall
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10, 2020, Page(s) 9885, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-66749-5

Evolution of an Alternative Genetic Code in the Providencia Symbiont of the Hematophagous Leech Haementeria acuecueyetzin

Author(s): Alejandro Manzano-Marín, Sebastian Kvist, Alejandro Oceguera-Figueroa
Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution, Issue 15(9), 2023, Page(s) evad164, ISSN 1759-6653
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evad164