Lack of correlation between placenta and offspring size in mouse interspecific crosses

Anatomy and Embryology

Volumn 200, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 335-343

  Kurz, Haymo ^a   Zechner, Ulrich ^b   Orth, Annie ^c   Fundele, Reinald ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetal growth control; Genetic conflict; Imprinting; Speciation; Trophoblast

Indexed keywords

GLYCOGEN;

ARTICLE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL TYPE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONFLICT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; FETUS GROWTH; GENOME; GENOME IMPRINTING; HYBRID; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PLACENTA DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BODY CONSTITUTION; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GLYCOGEN; HYBRIDIZATION, GENETIC; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MICE; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TROPHOBLASTS;

MAMMALIA; MUS MUSCULUS; MUS SPRETUS; MUSCULUS;

EID: 0032793078     PISSN: 03402061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004290050284     Document Type: Article

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