Draft genome sequences of Hirudo medicinalis and salivary transcriptome of three closely related medicinal leeches
Vladislav V. Babenko, Oleg V. Podgorny, Valentin A. Manuvera, Artem S. Kasianov, Alexander I. Manolov, Ekaterina N. Grafskaia, Dmitriy A. Shirokov, Alexey S. Kurdyumov, Dmitriy V. Vinogradov, Anastasia S. Nikitina, Sergey I. Kovalchuk, Nikolay A. Anikanov, Ivan Butenko, Olga V. Pobeguts, Daria S. Matyushkina, , В. Н. Лазарев
The paper annotates the Hirudo medicinalis genome and analyzes salivary transcriptomes of three leech species to identify salivary cell-specific genes and update knowledge on blood-sucking mechanisms.
BMC Genomics · Apr 29, 2020Peer-reviewedSystems Biology