TY - JOUR AU - Molina, Nerea M AU - Plaza-Díaz, Julio AU - Vilchez-Vargas, Ramiro AU - Sola-Leyva, Alberto AU - Vargas, Eva AU - Mendoza-Tesarik, Raquel AU - Galán-Lázaro, Maribel AU - Mendoza-Ladrón de Guevara, Nicolás AU - Tesarik, Jan AU - Altmäe, Signe PY - 2021 DO - 10.1016/j.rbmo.2021.06.021 UR - https://hdl.handle.net/10668/28001 T2 - Reproductive biomedicine online AB - The semen harbours a diverse range of microorganisms. The origin of the seminal microbes, however, has not yet been established. Do testicular spermatozoa harbour microbes and could they potentially contribute to the seminal microbiome composition?... LA - en KW - Male infertility KW - Microbiome KW - Microbiota KW - Semen KW - Sperm KW - Adult KW - Aged KW - Case-Control Studies KW - DNA Fragmentation KW - High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing KW - Humans KW - Infertility, Male KW - Male KW - Microbiota KW - Middle Aged KW - RNA, Ribosomal, 16S KW - Semen Analysis KW - Sequence Analysis, DNA KW - Spermatozoa KW - Testis TI - Assessing the testicular sperm microbiome: a low-biomass site with abundant contamination. TY - research article VL - 43 ER -