Cadherins in maternal-foetal interactions: Red queen with a green beard?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 272, Issue 1563, 2005, Pages 643-649

  Summers, Kyle ^a   Crespi, Bernard ^b  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cadherin; Green beard; Placenta; Selection

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; CELL PROTEIN; PROTEIN P CADHERIN; PROTEIN VE CADHERIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UVOMORULIN;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL ADHESION; CELL SURFACE; COEVOLUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FETOMATERNAL TRANSFUSION; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CADHERINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MAMMALS; MATERNAL-FETAL EXCHANGE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PREGNANCY; SELECTION (GENETICS); SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 23244438859     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2890     Document Type: Article

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