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Leech blood-meal invertebrate-derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats. [PDF]

Mol Ecol, 2021
Abstract The application of metabarcoding to environmental and invertebrate‐derived DNA (eDNA and iDNA) is a new and increasingly applied method for monitoring biodiversity across a diverse range of habitats. This approach is particularly promising for sampling in the biodiverse humid tropics, where rapid land‐use change for agriculture means there is ...
Drinkwater R, Jucker T, Potter JHT, Swinfield T, Coomes DA, Slade EM, Gilbert MTP, Lewis OT, Bernard H, Struebig MJ, Clare EL, Rossiter SJ.   +11 more
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A new species of Tritetrabdella (Hirudinida: Hirudiniformes: Haemadipsidae) from northern Indochina [PDF]

, 2016
A new species of the terrestrial haemadipsid genus Tritetrabdella, Tritetrabdella longiducta, from northern Indochina is described. The new species is distinguished from all congeners by the combination of triannulate somite VII, uniannulate somite XXV ...
Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai, Nakano, Takafumi, Nguyen, Thien Tao, Panha, Somsak   +3 more
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Occurrence of blood‐feeding terrestrial leeches (Haemadipsidae) in a degraded forest ecosystem and their potential as ecological indicators [PDF]

Biotropica, 2019
Blood‐feeding invertebrates are emerging model taxa in biodiversity assessments, both as indicators of mammal abundance and also as sources of mammal DNA for identification.
Burnham K. P., Deere N. J., Drinkwater R., Kocher A., MacKenzie D. I., Mann K. H., R Core Team, Sawyer R., Schnell I. B., Tan E., Tan E., Tan E.   +11 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
europepmc   +2 more sources

Molecular Identification of Haemadipsa rjukjuana (Hirudiniformes: Haemadipsidae) in Gageo Island, Korea. [PDF]

Korean J Parasitol, 2014
There are 60 species of blood-feeding land leeches, 50 species belonging to the family Haemadipsidae and 10 species belonging to the family Xerobdellidae. Despite recent papers on the land leeches, their taxonomic identification is not fully understood, especially at a species level.
Won S, Park BK, Kim BJ, Kim HW, Kang JG, Park TS, Seo HY, Eun Y, Kim KG, Chae JS.   +9 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

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
europepmc   +2 more sources

iDNA from terrestrial haematophagous leeches as a wildlife surveying and monitoring tool - prospects, pitfalls and avenues to be developed. [PDF]

Front Zool, 2015
Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) from terrestrial haematophagous leeches has recently been proposed as a powerful non-invasive tool with which to detect vertebrate species and thus to survey their populations.
Schnell IB, Sollmann R, Calvignac-Spencer S, Siddall ME, Yu DW, Wilting A, Gilbert MT.   +6 more
europepmc   +6 more sources

Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: many lineages of medicinal leeches. [PDF]

BMC Evol Biol, 2009
Background Medicinal leeches became infamous for their utility in bloodletting popularized in the 19th century, and have seen a recent resurgence in post-operative treatments for flap and replantation surgeries, and in terms of characterization of ...
Phillips AJ, Siddall ME.
europepmc   +5 more sources

Using metabarcoding to compare the suitability of two blood-feeding leech species for sampling mammalian diversity in North Borneo. [PDF]

Mol Ecol Resour, 2019
Abstract The application of high‐throughput sequencing (HTS) for metabarcoding of mixed samples offers new opportunities in conservation biology. Recently, the successful detection of prey DNA from the guts of leeches has raised the possibility that these, and other blood‐feeding invertebrates, might serve as useful samplers of mammals.
Drinkwater R, Schnell IB, Bohmann K, Bernard H, Veron G, Clare E, Gilbert MTP, Rossiter SJ.   +7 more
europepmc   +2 more sources

A new subspecies of Trypanosoma cyclops found in the Australian terrestrial leech Chtonobdella bilineata. [PDF]

Parasitology, 2021
Previously it was suggested that haemadipsid leeches represent an important vector of trypanosomes amongst native animals in Australia. Consequently, Chtonobdella bilineata leeches were investigated for the presence of trypanosome species by PCR, DNA ...
Ellis J, Barratt J, Kaufer A, Pearn L, Armstrong B, Johnson M, Park Y, Downey L, Cao M, Neill L, Lee R, Ellis B, Tyler K, Lun ZR, Stark D.   +14 more
europepmc   +3 more sources