The fetal membranes of the otter shrews and a synapomorphy for Afrotheria

Placenta

Volumn 27, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 258-268

  Carter, A M ^a   Blankenship, T N ^b   Enders, A C ^b   Vogel, P ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Afrosoricida; Afrotheria; Haemophagous organ; Phylogeny; Placentation; Tenrec; Tenrecoidea

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHORIOALLANTOIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS MEMBRANE; INSECTIVORE; MORPHOLOGY; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SYNAPOMORPHY; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; EXTRAEMBRYONIC MEMBRANES; FEMALE; OTTERS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY;

EID: 28844506392     PISSN: 01434004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.placenta.2005.02.019     Document Type: Article

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