Metagenomic and proteomic analyses reveal similar reproductive microbial profiles and shared functional pathways in uterine immune regulation in mares and jennies

• Eva da Silva-Álvarez,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

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• Vanessa Gómez-Arrones,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Centro de Selección y Reproducción animal de Extremadura. Junta de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

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• Florencia Correa-Fiz,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Unitat Mixta d’Investigació IRTA-UAB en Sanitat Animal, Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, IRTA, Programa de Sanitat Animal, Centre de Recerca en Sanitat Animal (CReSA), Campus de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain, WOAH Collaborating Centre for the Research and Control of Emerging and Re-Emerging Swine Diseases in Europe (IRTA-CReSA), Barcelona, Spain

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• Francisco Eduardo Martín-Cano,

  Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4971-4883

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• Gemma Gaitskell-Phillips,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4308-7903

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• Juan Jesús Carrasco,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Centro de Selección y Reproducción animal de Extremadura. Junta de Extremadura, Badajoz, Spain

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• Joaquín Rey,

  Roles Software, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

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• Inés María Aparicio,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Anatomy, Cell Biology and Zoology, Faculty of Nursery and Occupational Therapy, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain.

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• Fernando Juan Peña,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1311-2947

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• Juan Manuel Alonso ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel Alonso, Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Animal Health, Unit of Infectious Diseases, University of Extremadura, Caceres, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1817-9227

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• Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

  Contributed equally to this work with: Juan Manuel Alonso, Cristina Ortega-Ferrusola

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cristinaof@unex.es

  Affiliation Department of Animal Medicine, Laboratory of Equine Reproduction and Equine Spermatology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-8735

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