Placental development, evolution, and epigenetics of primate pregnancies

Building Babies: Primate Development in Proximate and Ultimate Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 55-81

  Sterner, Kirstin N ^a,b   Jameson, Natalie M ^a   Wildman, Derek E ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

DNA; Fetal maternal conflict; Imprinting; Placenta; Symbiosis; Uterine environment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995713480     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4060-4_3     Document Type: Chapter

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