Menstruation: A nonadaptive consequence of uterine evolution

Quarterly Review of Biology

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 163-173

  Finn, C A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ENDOMETRIUM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FEMALE GENITAL SYSTEM; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MALE; MENSTRUATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; UTERUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ENDOMETRIUM; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENITALIA, FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LUTEOLYSIS; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MENSTRUATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; UTERUS;

EID: 0032085685     PISSN: 00335770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/420183     Document Type: Article

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