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The objective was to characterize temporal changes in the seminal microbiota composition of raw boar semen incubated at 17 \u00b0C for 12\u202fdays. For this purpose, six ejaculates from Landrace boars used as artificial insemination donors were analyzed, with samples evaluated on days 1, 4, 8, and 12 through DNA extraction, amplification of the V3\u2013V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene, and Illumina MiSeq sequencing. The results showed a progressive reduction in bacterial richness and diversity during storage, with a transition from an initially heterogeneous community, mainly represented by\n                    <jats:italic>Proteobacteria, Firmicutes, Bacteroidota,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Actinobacteriota,<\/jats:italic>\n                    toward low-complexity communities relatively dominated by opportunistic taxa such as\n                    <jats:italic>Pseudomonas, Escherichia-Shigella, Enterococcus,<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic>Bacteroides<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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