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This project investigates the symbiotic relationship between blood-feeding leeches and their bacterial partners that provide essential B vitamins. It aims to sequence the genomes of these symbionts and study their metabolic interactions, offering insights into the evolution of nutritional symbiosis in these organisms.
Strict blood-feeding leeches are confronted with a strong B-vitamin deficiency and thus rely on bacterial symbionts to supplement their unbalanced diet.
Recent evidence showed that the Mexican leech Haementeria officinalis houses in a distinct specialised organ intracellular Providencia siddallii symbionts, which have a highly reduced genome but maintained genes required for B vitamin biosynthesis.
The aim of this proposal is to establish this leech as a model system for studying the intricacies…
UNIVERSITAT WIEN
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