Life-History Correlates of Placental Structure in Eutherian Evolution

Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 287-305

  Lewitus, Eric ^a   Soligo, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ancestral state reconstruction; Character association; Genomic imprinting; Mutational mapping; Placentation; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

EUTHERIA;

EID: 80051702519     PISSN: 00713260     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11692-011-9115-x     Document Type: Article

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