Baton pass hypothesis: Successive incorporation of unconserved endogenous retroviral genes for placentation during mammalian evolution

Genes to Cells

Volumn 20, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 771-788

  Imakawa, Kazuhiko ^a   Nakagawa, So ^b   Miyazawa, Takayuki ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN 1; SYNCYTIN 2; SYNCYTIN A; SYNCYTIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; PLACENTA PROTEIN; SYNCYTIN; VIRUS ENVELOPE PROTEIN;

BIRTH; BOVINE; CELL FUSION; DEATH; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; EVOLUTION; GAS EXCHANGE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN EVOLUTION; MAMMALIAN GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHYLOGENY; PLACENTA; PLACENTAL MAMMALS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; REVIEW; SYNCYTIOTROPHOBLAST; TROPHOBLAST; UTERUS; VIRUS CELL INTERACTION; VIRUS EXPRESSION; VIRUS GENE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; MAMMAL; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CELL FUSION; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; GENE PRODUCTS, ENV; GENES, VIRAL; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PLACENTA; PLACENTATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY PROTEINS;

EID: 84943356009     PISSN: 13569597     EISSN: 13652443     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gtc.12278     Document Type: Review

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