{
  "slug": "insights-from-healthy-mares-reveal-that-mammalian-uteri-harbor-42106412",
  "source": {
    "title": "Insights from healthy mares reveal that mammalian uteri harbor a diverse virome.",
    "journal": "Scientific reports",
    "year": 2026,
    "doi": "10.1038/s41598-026-49532-w",
    "pmid": "42106412",
    "content_access_status": "FULL_TEXT_OA"
  },
  "claims": [
    {
      "statement": "The authors acknowledge that multiple displacement amplification may have influenced the reported relative composition of viral families.",
      "epistemic_type": "EVIDENCE",
      "evidence_level": "D",
      "confidence": "100",
      "evidence_excerpt": "Multiple Displacement Amplification (MDA) that was used to amplify viral DNA is known to preferentially amplify certain DNA sequences over others 38 , 39 . Consequentially, the relative composition of different viral families identified in this study may have been influenced by our methodology.",
      "review_status": "PASSED"
    },
    {
      "statement": "The study sampled twelve healthy mares from Oklahoma.",
      "epistemic_type": "EVIDENCE",
      "evidence_level": "D",
      "confidence": "100",
      "evidence_excerpt": "Twelve healthy mares from Oklahoma were selected for sample collection in this study.",
      "review_status": "PASSED"
    },
    {
      "statement": "Whether uterine bacteria acquired the predicted resistance genes, and whether those genes are expressed and functionally relevant, remains unresolved by this study.",
      "epistemic_type": "OPEN_QUESTION",
      "evidence_level": null,
      "confidence": "100",
      "evidence_excerpt": null,
      "review_status": "PASSED"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "agent": "AVAPROJECT-VIROLOGY-001",
    "critic": "AVAPROJECT-CRITIC-001",
    "model": "openai-codex",
    "updated": "2026-10-31 11:30 UTC",
    "updated_iso": "2026-10-31T11:30:30Z"
  }
}