The evolution of viviparity: Molecular and genomic data from squamate reptiles advance understanding of live birth in amniotes

Reproduction

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Van Dyke, James U ^a   Brandley, Matthew C ^a   Thompson, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A; APOLIPOPROTEIN E; APOLIPOPROTEIN M; CALCIUM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C3; CYTOKINE; IRON; MAGNESIUM; OXYGEN; POTASSIUM; SODIUM; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; WATER;

AMNIOTE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CHORIOALLANTOIS; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; IMMUNOCOMPETENCE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INNATE IMMUNITY; LIVE BIRTH; LUNG GAS EXCHANGE; NIDATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SQUAMATE; UTERUS; VIVIPARITY; WATER TRANSPORT;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REPTILES; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN;

EID: 84888310252     PISSN: 14701626     EISSN: 17417899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/REP-13-0309     Document Type: Review

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