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dc.contributor.authorGòdia, Marta
dc.contributor.authorRamayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis
dc.contributor.authorZingaretti, Laura M.
dc.contributor.authorDarwich, Laila
dc.contributor.authorLópez, Samantha
dc.contributor.authorRodríguez-Gil, Joan E.
dc.contributor.authorYeste, Marc
dc.contributor.authorSánchez, Armand
dc.contributor.authorClop, Alex
dc.contributor.otherProducció Animalca
dc.date.accessioned2020-11-03T11:08:12Z
dc.date.available2022-03-24T12:00:20Z
dc.date.issued2020-08-15
dc.identifier.citationGòdia M, Ramayo-Caldas Y, Zingaretti LM, Darwich L, López S, Rodríguez-Gil JE, Yeste M, Sánchez A, Clop A. A pilot RNA-seq study in 40 pietrain ejaculates to characterize the porcine sperm microbiome. Theriogenology. 2020 Aug 15;157:525-533. doi: 10.1016/j.theriogenology.2020.08.001. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 32971422.ca
dc.identifier.issn0093-691Xca
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12327/962
dc.description.abstractThe microbiome plays a key role in homeostasis and health and it has been also linked to fertility and semen quality in several animal species including swine. Despite the more than likely importance of sperm bacteria on the boar's reproductive ability and the dissemination of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance genes, the high throughput characterization of the swine sperm microbiome remains scarce. We carried RNA-seq on 40 ejaculates each from a different Pietrain boar and found that a proportion of the sequencing reads did not map to the Sus scrofa genome. The current study aimed at using these reads not belonging to pig to carry a pilot study to profile the boar sperm bacterial population and its relation with 7 semen quality traits. We found that the boar sperm contains a broad population of bacteria. The most abundant phyla were Proteobacteria (39.1%), Firmicutes (27.5%), Actinobacteria (14.9%) and Bacteroidetes (5.7%). The predominant species contaminated sperm after ejaculation from soil, faeces and water sources (Bacillus megaterium, Brachybacterium faecium, Bacillus coagulans). Some potential pathogens were also found but at relatively low levels (Escherichia coli, Clostridioides difficile, Clostridium perfringens, Clostridium botulinum and Mycobacterium tuberculosis). We also identified 3 potential antibiotic resistant genes from E. coli against chloramphenicol, Neisseria meningitidis against spectinomycin and Staphylococcus aureus against linezolid. None of these genes were highly abundant. Finally, we classified the ejaculates into categories according to their bacterial features and semen quality parameters and identified two categories that significantly differed for 5 semen quality traits and 13 bacterial features including the genera Acinetobacter, Stenotrophomonas and Rhodobacter. Our results show that boar semen contains a bacterial community, including potential pathogens and putative antibiotic resistance genes, and that these bacteria may affect its reproductive performance.ca
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dc.language.isoengca
dc.publisherElsevierca
dc.relation.ispartofTheriogenologyca
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalca
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/*
dc.titleA pilot RNA-seq study in 40 pietrain ejaculates to characterize the porcine sperm microbiomeca
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleca
dc.description.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersionca
dc.rights.accessLevelinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.relation.projectIDMINECO/Programa Estatal de I+D+I orientada a los retos de la sociedad/AGL2017-86946-R/ES/GENOMICA APLICADA AL DESARROLLO DE MARCADORES PREDICTIVOS DE CARACTERES REPRODUCTIVOS EN VERRACO/ca
dc.relation.projectIDFEDER/ / /EU/ /ca
dc.relation.projectIDMINECO/Programa Estatal de fomento de la investigación científica y técnica de excelencia/SEV-2015-0533/ES/ /ca
dc.relation.projectIDEC/H2020/665919/EU/Opening Sphere UAB-CEI to PostDoctoral Fellows/P-SPHEREca
dc.subject.udc619ca
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2020.08.001ca
dc.contributor.groupSanitat Animalca
dc.contributor.groupGenètica i Millora Animalca


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