Comprehensive 16S rRNA gene sequencing and meta-transcriptomic analyses of the female reproductive tract microbiota: two molecular profiles with different messages
This work was supported by the projects Endo-Map PID2021-127280OB-I00, ROSY CNS2022-135999, and ENDORE SAF2017-87526-R funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by FEDER, EU. This work was also supported by the Estonian Research Council grants (PSG1082 and PRG1076), Swedish Research Council grant no. 2024-02530 and Novo Nordisk Foundation grant no. NNF24OC0092384. Additionally, A.S.L. and I.P.P. acknowledge Becas Fundación Ramón Areces para Estudios Postdoctorales-Convocatorias XXXV and XXXVI, para Ampliación de Estudios en el Extranjero en Ciencias de la Vida y de la Materia. A.S. is supported by Horizon Europe (NESTOR, grant no. 101120075) and the Ministry of Education and Research Centres of Excellence grant TK214 name of CoE. All the authors declare no conflict of interest.
Authors
- Apostol Apostolov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-2507-5735)
- Ganesh Acharya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1997-3107)
- Analuce Canha-Gouveia (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6411-4195)
- Signe Altmäe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-1865)
- Eduardo Salas-Espejo
- Andres Salumets (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1251-8160)
- Merli Saare (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0221-2093)
- S Vela-Moreno
- R. Therón Sánchez
- Eva Vargas
- Inmaculada Pérez-Prieto
- Amruta D S Pathare
- Susana Ruiz-Durán
- Bárbara Romero
- José Antonio Castilla-Alcalá
- Alberto Sola-Leyva
- Nerea M Molina
Institutions
- Karolinska University Hospital (SE)
- Universidad de Granada (ES)
- Universidad de Jaén (ES)
- Karolinska Institutet (SE)
- Instituto de Investigación Biosanitaria de Granada (ES)
- Hospital Universitario Virgen de las Nieves (ES)
- University of Tartu (EE)
- UiT The Arctic University of Norway (NO)
- Universidad de Murcia (ES)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Human Reproduction Open
- Published
- 2026-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/hropen/hoag001
- Primary Topic
- Reproductive tract infections research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00