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New Records of Lake Baikal Leech Fauna: Species Diversity and Spatial Distribution in Chivyrkuy Gulf [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2013
The study of several Lake Baikal leech collections offered us the possibility to determine species diversity in the Chivyrkuy Gulf, the biggest one in the lake.
Irina A. Kaygorodova, Nikolay M. Pronin
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Genetic Diversity of Freshwater Leeches in Lake Gusinoe (Eastern Siberia, Russia) [PDF]

The Scientific World Journal, 2014
The study of leeches from Lake Gusinoe and its adjacent area offered us the possibility to determine species diversity. As a result, an updated species list of the Gusinoe Hirudinea fauna (Annelida, Clitellata) has been compiled. There are two orders and
Irina A. Kaygorodova, Nadezhda Mandzyak, Ekaterina Petryaeva, Nikolay M. Pronin   +3 more
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The potential of aquatic bloodfeeding and nonbloodfeeding leeches as a tool for iDNA characterisation. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour, 2022
Abstract Leeches play important roles in food webs due to their abundance, diversity and feeding habits. Studies using invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA) extracted from leech gut contents to target vertebrate DNA have focused on the Indo‐Pacific region and mainly leveraged the leech family Haemadipsidae, composed of bloodfeeding terrestrial leeches, while
Lynggaard C, Oceguera-Figueroa A, Kvist S, Gilbert MTP, Bohmann K.   +4 more
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First data on the Hirudinea fauna of lotic ecosystems of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area (Russia) [PDF]

ZooKeys, 2022
Hirudinea, a small and ecologically important group of aquatic organisms, is poorly studied in northern Eurasia. In this study, we demyth the idea of the faunistic poverty of this region and present the first findings of rheophilic leeches from the ...
Lyudmila I. Fedorova, Irina A. Kaygorodova   +1 more
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Sucking of human blood by Placobdella costata (O. F. Müller, 1846) (Hirudinida: Glossiphoniidae): Case study with notes on body form. [PDF]

Ecol Evol, 2021
In our paper, four events of blood sucking on human by juvenile and adult specimens of Placobdella costata were described. We presented with a new data of juvenile specimens' body form and considered information about the potential role of mammals as hosts and dispersion vector of this leech.
Cichocka JM, Bielecki A, Jabłońska-Barna I, Krajewski Ł, Topolska K, Hildebrand J, Dmitryjuk M, Biedunkiewicz A, Abramchuk A.   +8 more
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The genome sequence of the freshwater leech, Erpobdella octoculata (Linnaeus, 1758) (Hirudinida: Erpobdellidae) [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]

Wellcome Open Research
We present a genome assembly from an individual Erpobdella octoculata (leeches; Annelida; Clitellata; Hirudinida; Erpobdellidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 386.12 megabases.
Andrew Morrise, Susan J. Skipp
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The Role of Artificial Lakes Located in Forests in the Context of Small Retention, Biodiversity and Climatic Changes-Evidence From Southern Poland. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
The model of plant associations showed the occurrence of 24 species of plants within nine plant assemblages in the Phragmitetea and Potametea classes of associations. Despite human activities, lake condition, as assessed by the ESMI index or the biocenotic diversity indices, is good.
Starzak R, Cieplok A, Czerniawski R, Spyra A.   +3 more
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Assessing the Effect of Polyethylene Microplastics in the Freshwater Leech Erpobdella johanssoni (Annelida, Hirudinida) Through Integrated Biomarkers and Histopathological Analysis [PDF]

Animals
Microplastics (MPs) are contaminants of emerging concern, and the study of their effects on several species, especially freshwater organisms, has not been exhausted.
Raja Ben Ahmed, Ichrak Khaled, Tahani El Ayari, Issam Saidi, Abdel Halim Harrath   +4 more
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Exploring Barbronia species diversity and phylogenetic relationship within Suborder Erpobdelliformes (Clitellata: Annelida) [PDF]

PeerJ
Background Barbronia, a genus of freshwater macrophagous leeches, belongs to Erpobdelliformes (Salifidae: Clitellata: Annelida), and B. weberi, a well-known leech within this genus, has a worldwide distribution. However, the systematics of Barbronia have
Yingkui Liu, Xinxin Fu, Yu Wang, Jing Liu, Yong Liu, Chong Li, Jiajia Dong   +6 more
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Molecular Insights Into the Sensory Adaption of the Cave-Dwelling Leech Sinospelaeobdella wulingensis to the Karst Cave Environment. [PDF]

Ecol Evol
We conducted a transcriptome analysis on the cave‐dwelling land leech Sinospelaeobdella wulingensis. Piezos, TRPs, and iGluRs may have roles in mechanosensory and chemosensory systems of this leech. Similar gene expression profiles in winter and summer samples imply a stable physiological status of S.
Wen X, Xiang H, Zhang M, Yan A, Xiang D, Zou J, Zhang Y, Huang X, Liu Z.   +8 more
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