Eggs, embryos and the evolution of imprinting: Insights from the platypus genome

Reproduction, Fertility and Development

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 935-942

  Renfree, Marilyn B ^a,b   Papenfuss, Anthony T ^a,c   Shaw, Geoff ^a,b   Pask, Andrew J ^a,b,d  

^a ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Eutherians; Genomic imprinting; Host defence hypothesis; Mammals; Marsupials; Monotremes; Repeats

Indexed keywords

EGG; EMBRYO CELL; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTION; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INSERTION; GENE SILENCING; GENOME IMPRINTING; HOST RESISTANCE; MARSUPIAL; MONOTREMATE; NONHUMAN; PLATYPUS; RETROPOSON; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; EGGS; EMBRYO, MAMMALIAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME; GENOMIC IMPRINTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OVUM; PHYLOGENY; PLATYPUS;

EUTHERIA; MAMMALIA; METATHERIA; MONOTREMATA; PROTOTHERIA; THERIA;

EID: 71049129143     PISSN: 10313613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/RD09092     Document Type: Review

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