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Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity, 2014 Specimens of the genus Orobdella Oka, 1895 from Korea, including various locations in the Korean Peninsula, were identified as Orobdella tsushimensis Nakano, 2011.
Takafumi Nakano
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A new species of leech of the genus Placobdella (Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) from the American alligator (Alligator mississippiensis) in Mississippi, USA [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2017 To date, the only species of leech reported from the American Alligator, Alligator mississippiensis is Placobdella multilineata. Seven specimens of a previously undescribed species of Placobdella were collected from the feet and lower jaw of a single ...
Dennis J. Richardson +5 more
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The Origin and Evolution of Antistasin-like Proteins in Leeches (Hirudinida, Clitellata). [PDF]
Genome Biol Evol, 2021 AbstractBloodfeeding is employed by many parasitic animals and requires specific innovations for efficient feeding. Some of these innovations are molecular features that are related to the inhibition of hemostasis. For example, bloodfeeding insects, bats, and leeches release proteins with anticoagulatory activity through their salivary secretions.
Iwama RE +3 more
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Transcriptomics and differential gene expression in Whitmania pigra (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida: Hirudinidae): Contrasting feeding and fasting modes. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2019 AbstractThe medicinal utility of leeches has been demonstrated through decades of use in modern hospital settings, mainly as relievers of venous congestion following flap or digit replantation surgery. In the present study, we sequence and annotate (through BLAST‐ and Gene Ontology‐based approaches) the salivary transcriptome of the nonblood feeding ...
Khan MS +5 more
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Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2023 In the present study, the malacophagous leech Alboglossiphonia weberi(Blandchard, 1897) (Annelida, Hirudinida, Glossiphoniidae) was recorded for the first time in the freshwaters of theFergana Valley in the eastern part of Uzbekistan during 2020-2022 ...
Khayrulla Solijonov +2 more
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Ecological indicators for qualitative assessment of Ojarud River: A case study
Ecology and Evolution, Volume 13, Issue 7, July 2023., 2023 The results of this study exposed a sizable alteration in the diversity and abundance of macro‐invertebrate from the sensitive families to resistant and tolerant taxa under the contamination stress resulting from the point source pollution in the Ojarud River.
Aydin Mobasher +3 more
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Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae) [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2013 AbstractAlthough medicinal leeches have long been used as treatment for various ailments because of their potent anticoagulation factors, neither the full diversity of salivary components that inhibit coagulation, nor the evolutionary selection acting on them has been thoroughly investigated.
Kvist, Sebastian +2 more
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Molecular Ecology, Volume 32, Issue 8, Page 2022-2040, April 2023., 2023 Abstract One of the most important physiological challenges animals had to overcome during terrestrialization (i.e., the transition from sea to land) was water loss, which alters their osmotic and hydric homeostasis. Aquaporins are a superfamily of membrane water transporters heavily involved in osmoregulatory processes.
Gemma I. Martínez‐Redondo +5 more
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The European Zoological Journal, 2021 Activities of nineteen hydrolases were measured in the digestive systems of predatory and blood-feeding true leeches (Hirudinida) and their closest relatives, Branchiobdellida and Acanthobdellida.
J. M. Cichocka +8 more
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Poly-paraphyly of Hirudinidae: many lineages of medicinal leeches [PDF]
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2009 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 salivary anticoagulants.
Phillips, A. J., Siddall, M. E.
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