Going retro: Transposable elements, embryonic stem cells, and the mammalian placenta (retrospective on DOI 10.1002/bies.201300059)

BioEssays

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1154-1154

  Haig, David ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC STEM CELL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENOME; MAMMAL; NATURAL SELECTION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PLACENTA; RETROPOSON; RETROVIRIDAE; TRANSPOSON; TROPHOBLAST; VIRUS REPLICATION; ANIMAL; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUS; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; ENDOGENOUS RETROVIRUSES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; PLACENTA; PREGNANCY; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84945446167     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500114     Document Type: Note

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