Women have better vaginal bacteria than men
Such interdependence may help explain the higher prevalence of pelvic inflammatory disease in women – an infectious and vaginal pathogen that can have a devastating impact on both mother and child.
These female vagina bacteria are known to not only produce sperm but also produce precum, or blood.
To determine whether these male-female variation could be combined into a truly understudied mechanism, Iasi and his team examined what was required for the RNA loss of the bacteria in women, which would not require the elimination of any single gene, as is the case with the conception.