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First Isolation of a Giant Virus from Wild Hirudo medicinalis Leech: Mimiviridae isolation in Hirudo medicinalis

Viruses, 2013
Giant viruses and amoebae are common in freshwater, where they can coexist with other living multicellular organisms. We screened leeches from the species Hirudo medicinalis for giant viruses. We analyzed five H. medicinalis obtained from Tunisia (3) and
Mondher Boughalmi, Isabelle Pagnier, Sarah Aherfi, Philippe Colson, Didier Raoult, Bernard La Scola   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Kant on Rational Reference: Theology as transcendental philosophy

European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract The Critical Kant famously held that our cognition requires intuition, or essentially singular representation. Kant is also often understood as taking a dismissive attitude toward his rationalist predecessors' accounts of how we cognize singulars or individuals.
Maya Krishnan
wiley   +1 more source

Leeches (Annelida: Hirudinida) of Northern Arkansas

, 2006
Twenty-one lotic and lentic environments throughout central and northern Arkansas were surveyed for the presence of leeches during June 2004 and April, July - October 2005.
Daniels, Bruce A., Moser, William E., Klemm, Donald J., Wheeler, Benjamin A., Trauth, Stanley E., Richardson, Dennis J.   +5 more
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Gut microbiota and metabolic function in leeches with distinct feeding niches

BMC Microbiology
Background The gut microbiota has co-evolved with its host and plays a vital role in maintaining physiological homeostasis and health. Understanding the composition of microbial communities in leech guts may reveal important insights into their ...
Xiangrong Tong, Dezhi Yang, Xueting Cao, Xingliang Yang, Qingmei Hu, Sijia Fan, Huanhuan Chen, Yanru Cao, Jinhua Liu, Zichao Liu   +9 more
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Geographical variability of heavy metal concentrations in tissues of medical leeches (Hirudo medicinalis, Hirudo verbana) and in bottom deposit

Nature Conservation Research: Заповедная наука, 2019
We present new data of the comparison of the geographical variability of heavy metal concentrations (Cu, Zn, Mn, Fe, Cd, Pb, Ni) in tissues of medical leeches (Hirudo medicinalis, Hirudo verbana) and in bottom deposit from places of their inhabitation in
Liudmila V. Chernaya, Liudmila A. Kovalchuk, Nikolay V. Mikshevich   +2 more
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Impressions that matter: How Italian SOEs construct a digital image through persuasive language strategies

Financial Accountability &Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci, Raffaela Casciello, Flavio Spagnuolo, Belén Gill‐de‐Albornoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Statistical characterization of social interactions and collective behavior in medicinal leeches

, 2011
In the present study we analyzed the behavior and interactions among leeches in the same observation tank. Colored beads were glued onto their skin so that their behavior could be followed and quantified.
BISSON G, Vincent Torre, Bisson, G, Torre, Vincent, Giacomo Bisson   +4 more
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High Cost and Low Trust: Insights From Qualitative Commercial Fishing Cost Data in the Northeast United States

Fisheries Management and Ecology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In fisheries management, socioeconomic data, specifically qualitative data analysis, is often underutilized. This study qualitatively analyzed a primary federal data collection effort in the Northeast United States, The Greater Atlantic Region Commercial Fishing Business Cost Survey.
Elizabeth D. Conley, Samantha Werner, Gregory Ardini, Matthew Cutler, Patricia M. Clay   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Provisional atlas of the freshwater leeches of the British Isles [PDF]

, 1981
Distribution maps were included in the second edition of the F.B.A. Scientific Publication on British freshwater leeches (Mann 1964). When that publication was extensively revised and enlarged to include a review of the literature on the ecology of ...
Elliott, J.M., Tullet, P.A.
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Morphological and molecular characterization of a new species of leech (Glossiphoniidae, Hirudinida): Implications for the health of its imperiled amphibian host (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)

ZooKeys, 2014
The hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) is among the most intriguing and imperiled amphibians in North America. Since the 1970s and 80s, western populations of the Ozark and eastern subspecies in Missouri have declined by nearly 80%. As a result of
William A. Hopkins, Bill Moser, David Garst, Dennis J. Richardson, Charlotte I. Hammond, Eric A. Lazo-Wasem   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source