Draft genome of the European medicinal leech Hirudo medicinalis (Annelida, Clitellata, Hirudiniformes) with emphasis on anticoagulants

Draft Genome of the Asian Buffalo Leech Hirudinaria manillensis

(2020) De-Long Guan et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Draft genome sequences of Hirudo medicinalis and salivary transcriptome of three closely related medicinal leeches

(2020) Vladislav V. Babenko et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Transcriptomics and differential gene expression in Whitmania pigra (Annelida: Clitellata: Hirudinida: Hirudinidae): Contrasting feeding and fasting modes

(2019) Muhammad Salabat Khan et al.   Ecology and Evolution

SignalP 5.0 improves signal peptide predictions using deep neural networks

(2019) José Juan Almagro Armenteros et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

In-depth profiles of bioactive large molecules in saliva secretions of leeches determined by combining salivary gland proteome and transcriptome data

(2019) Zichao Liu et al.   Journal of Proteomics

The salivary transcriptome of Limnobdella mexicana (Annelida: Clitellata: Praobdellidae) and orthology determination of major leech anticoagulants

(2019) Rafael Iwama et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Identification and characterization of hirudin-HN, a new thrombin inhibitor, from the salivary glands of Hirudo nipponia

(2019) Boxing Cheng et al.   PeerJ

Marine Leech Anticoagulant Diversity and Evolution

(2018) Michael Tessler et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Transcriptomic analysis of the salivary gland of medicinal leech Hirudo nipponia

(2018) Zenghui Lu et al.   PLoS One

Direct determination of diploid genome sequences

(2017) Neil I. Weisenfeld et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Be ready at any time: postprandial synthesis of salivary proteins in salivary gland cells of the haematophagous leechHirudo verbana

(2016) Sarah Lemke et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses of Three Species ofPlacobdella(Rhynchobdellida: Glossiphoniidae) Confirms a Single Origin of Blood Feeding in Leeches

(2016) Mark E. Siddall et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Hirudins and hirudin-like factors in Hirudinidae: implications for function and phylogenetic relationships

(2016) Christian Müller et al.   PARASITOLOGY RESEARCH

BUSCO: assessing genome assembly and annotation completeness with single-copy orthologs

(2015) Felipe A. Simão et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

More than just one: multiplicity of Hirudins and Hirudin-like Factors in the Medicinal Leech, Hirudo medicinalis

(2015) Christian Müller et al.   MOLECULAR GENETICS AND GENOMICS

InterProScan 5: genome-scale protein function classification

(2014) P. Jones et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

RAxML version 8: a tool for phylogenetic analysis and post-analysis of large phylogenies

(2014) Alexandros Stamatakis   BIOINFORMATICS

Infernal 1.1: 100-fold faster RNA homology searches

(2013) E. P. Nawrocki et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Pyrosequencing the salivary transcriptome ofHaemadipsa interrupta(Annelida: Clitellata: Haemadipsidae): anticoagulant diversity and insight into the evolution of anticoagulation capabilities in leeches

(2013) Sebastian Kvist et al.   INVERTEBRATE BIOLOGY

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Diversity and selective pressures of anticoagulants in three medicinal leeches (Hirudinida: Hirudinidae, Macrobdellidae)

(2013) Sebastian Kvist et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Insights into bilaterian evolution from three spiralian genomes

(2012) Oleg Simakov et al.   NATURE

Proteins and peptides of the salivary gland secretion of medicinal leeches Hirudo verbana, H. medicinalis, and H. orientalis

(2011) I. P. Baskova et al.   BIOCHEMISTRY-MOSCOW

PhymmBL expanded: confidence scores, custom databases, parallelization and more

(2011) Arthur Brady et al.   NATURE METHODS

Bacterial symbiont and salivary peptide evolution in the context of leech phylogeny

(2011) MARK E. SIDDALL et al.   PARASITOLOGY

Distribution and status of medicinal leeches (genusHirudo) in the Western Palaearctic: anthropogenic, ecological, or historical effects?

(2010) Serge Utevsky et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Salivary Transcriptome of the North American Medicinal Leech, Macrobdella decora

(2010) Gi-Sik Min et al.   JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY

Barcoding, types and theHirudofiles: Using information content to critically evaluate the identity of DNA barcodes

(2010) Sebastian Kvist et al.   Mitochondrial DNA

MetaPhOrs: orthology and paralogy predictions from multiple phylogenetic evidence using a consistency-based confidence score

(2010) Leszek P. Pryszcz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Jalview Version 2--a multiple sequence alignment editor and analysis workbench

(2009) A. M. Waterhouse et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Large-scale assignment of orthology: back to phylogenetics?

(2008) Toni Gabaldón   GENOME BIOLOGY