Diverse molecular data demonstrate that commercially available medicinal leeches are not Hirudo medicinalis

The European medicinal leech is one of vanishingly few animal species with direct application in modern medicine. In addition to the therapeutic potential held by many protease inhibitors purified from leech saliva, and notwithstanding the historical association with quackery, Hirudo medicinalis has...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Biological sciences, 2007-06, Vol.274 (1617), p.1481-1487
Hauptverfasser:	Siddall, Mark E, Trontelj, Peter, Utevsky, Serge Y, Nkamany, Mary, Macdonald, Kenneth S
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Alleles Analysis of Variance Animal models Animals Annelida Anticoagulants Base Sequence Biodiversity Biological taxonomies Commerce Conservation Biology DNA DNA barcoding DNA Primers DNA, Mitochondrial - genetics Europe Genetic loci Hirudinea Hirudo Hirudo medicinalis Invertebrates Leeches - classification Leeches - genetics Microsatellite Repeats - genetics Microsatellites Models, Genetic Molecular Sequence Data Neurobiology Orientalism Phylogeny Protease inhibitors Sequence Analysis, DNA Species Species Specificity
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