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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2007, p. 655-658, Vol. 73, No. 2
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01282-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

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Novel Role for Aeromonas jandaei as a Digestive Tract Symbiont of the North American Medicinal Leech{triangledown}

Mark E. Siddall,1* Paul L. Worthen,2 Matthew Johnson,1 and Joerg Graf2

Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024,1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 062682

Received 5 June 2006/ Accepted 5 November 2006

The gut bacteria of the North American medicinal leech, Macrobdella decora, were characterized. Biochemical tests and DNA sequences indicated that Aeromonas jandaei is the dominant culturable symbiont in leeches from a broad geographic area. In this work we identified a new habitat for A. jandaei, and here we suggest that there is unexpected specificity between leeches and Aeromonas species.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024. Phone: (212) 769-5638. Fax: (212) 769-5277. E-mail: siddall{at}amnh.org.

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 17 November 2006.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, January 2007, p. 655-658, Vol. 73, No. 2
0099-2240/07/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01282-06
Copyright © 2007, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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