Differential Evolutionary Fate of an Ancestral Primate Endogenous Retrovirus Envelope Gene, the EnvV Syncytin, Captured for a Function in Placentation

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Esnault, Cécile ^a,b   Cornelis, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Heidmann, Odile ^a,b   Heidmann, Thierry ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL FUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; ENVELOPE GENE; EX VIVO STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIMATE; PROVIRUS; REPRODUCTION; RETROVIRUS; SYNCYTIN GENE; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CERCOPITHECIDAE; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENOME; HUMANS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PRIMATES; RETROVIRIDAE PROTEINS;

ANIMALIA; CERCOPITHECIDAE; EUTHERIA; MUS; PRIMATES;

EID: 84875968925     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003400     Document Type: Article

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