Captured retroviral envelope syncytin gene associated with the unique placental structure of higher ruminants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Cornelis, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Heidmann, Odile ^a,b   Degrelle, Séverine A ^c,d   Vernochet, Cécile ^a,b   Lavialle, Christian ^a,b   Letzelter, Claire ^a,b   Bernard Stoecklin, Sibylle ^a,b   Hassanin, Alexandre ^a   Mulot, Baptiste ^f,g   Guillomot, Michel ^d,e   Hue, Isabelle ^d,e   Heidmann, Thierry ^a,b   Dupressoir, Anne ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d INRA Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique   (France)

^e ECOLE NATIONALE VÉTÉRINAIRE D ALFORT   (France)

^f Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique ^*  (France)

^g Association Beauval Conservation et Recherche   (France)

Author keywords

ERV; Phylogeny; Placental evolution; Placentome; Synepitheliochorial

Indexed keywords

SYNCYTIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR RUM1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BOS TAURUS; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EWE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUSION; GENE LOCATION; GENOTYPE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NONHUMAN; PLACENTA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROVIRUS; SHEEP; TROPHOBLAST; VIRUS GENE;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME; GOATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RUMINANTS; SELECTION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; VIRAL ENVELOPE PROTEINS;

EID: 84874453328     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1215787110     Document Type: Article

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