Retroviral envelope syncytin capture in an ancestrally diverged mammalian clade for placentation in the primitive Afrotherian tenrecs

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

Volumn 111, Issue 41, 2014, Pages E4332-E4341

  Cornelis, Guillaume ^a,b,c   Vernochet, Cécile ^a,b   Malicorne, Sébastien ^a,b   Souquere, Sylvie ^a,b   Tzika, Athanasia C ^d   Goodman, Steven M ^e,f   Catzeflis, Franҫois ^g   Robinson, Terence J ^h   Milinkovitch, Michel C ^d   Pierron, Gérard ^a,b   Heidmann, Odile ^a,b   Dupressoir, Anne ^a,b   Heidmann, Thierry ^a,b  

^a Institut Gustave Roussy   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^e ASSOCIATION VAHATRA   (Madagascar)

^f FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^h STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Endogenous retrovirus; Envelope protein; Feto maternal interface placenta evolution; Syncytiotrophoblast

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PLACENTA PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CYTOLOGY; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECTIVORA; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; PROVIRUS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCTION; RETROVIRIDAE; TIME; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VIRUS DNA CELL DNA INTERACTION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENOME; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INSECTIVORA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS; PROVIRUSES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROVIRIDAE; RNA, MESSENGER; SELECTION, GENETIC; TIME FACTORS; VIRUS INTEGRATION;

EID: 84907898472     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1412268111     Document Type: Article

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