Reptile pregnancy is underpinned by complex changes in uterine gene expression: A comparative analysis of the uterine transcriptome in viviparous and oviparous lizards

Genome Biology and Evolution

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 3226-3239

  Griffith, Oliver W ^a,b   Brandley, Matthew C ^a,c   Belov, Katherine ^a   Thompson, Michael B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent evolution; Lizard; Placenta; Pseudemoia; RNA seq; Viviparity

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETICS; LIZARD; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; OVIPARITY; PHYSIOLOGY; UTERUS; VIVIPARITY; YOLK SAC;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; LIZARDS; OVIPARITY; TRANSCRIPTOME; UTERUS; VIVIPARITY, NONMAMMALIAN; YOLK SAC;

EID: 84995603150     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17596653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evw229     Document Type: Article

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