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Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, p. 6890-6895, Vol. 75, No. 21
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01129-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Symbiont Succession during Embryonic Development of the European Medicinal Leech, Hirudo verbana{triangledown}

Rita V. M. Rio,1* Michele Maltz,2 Benjamin McCormick,1 Alexander Reiss,2 and Joerg Graf2

Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506,1 Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut 062692

Received 15 May 2009/ Accepted 28 July 2009

The European medicinal leech, Hirudo verbana, harbors simple microbial communities in the digestive tract and bladder. The colonization history, infection frequency, and growth dynamics of symbionts through host embryogenesis are described using diagnostic PCR and quantitative PCR. Symbiont species displayed diversity in temporal establishment and proliferation through leech development.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: West Virginia University, Department of Biology, 53 Campus Dr. 5106 LSB, Morgantown, WV 26506. Phone: (304) 293-5201, ext. 31458. Fax: (304) 293-6363. E-mail: rita.rio{at}mail.wvu.edu

{triangledown} Published ahead of print on 31 July 2009.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2009, p. 6890-6895, Vol. 75, No. 21
0099-2240/09/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/AEM.01129-09
Copyright © 2009, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.





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