Captured retroviral envelope syncytin gene associated with the unique placental structure of higher ruminants

Endogenous Retroviruses of Sheep: A Model System for Understanding Physiological Adaptation to an Evolving Ruminant Genome

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From ancestral infectious retroviruses to bona fide cellular genes: Role of the captured syncytins in placentation

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Ancestral capture of syncytin-Car1, a fusogenic endogenous retroviral envelope gene involved in placentation and conserved in Carnivora

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Bovine trophoblastic cell differentiation and binucleation involves enhanced endogenous retrovirus element expression

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Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

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Change of Positive Selection Pressure on HIV-1 Envelope Gene Inferred by Early and Recent Samples

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A structural and functional ground plan for neurons in the hindbrain of zebrafish

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Impacts of the Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution and KPg Extinction on Mammal Diversification

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Identification of Novel Endogenous Betaretroviruses Which Are Transcribed in the Bovine Placenta

(2010) K. Baba et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Retroviral infection in vivo requires an immune escape virulence factor encrypted in the envelope protein of oncoretroviruses

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Placental structure: in a comparative aspect

(2009) R. Leiser et al.   EXPERIMENTAL AND CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & DIABETES

Receptor Binding and Low pH Coactivate Oncogenic Retrovirus Envelope-Mediated Fusion

(2009) M. Cote et al.   JOURNAL OF VIROLOGY

Syncytin-A knockout mice demonstrate the critical role in placentation of a fusogenic, endogenous retrovirus-derived, envelope gene

(2009) A. Dupressoir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Resolving the evolution of extant and extinct ruminants with high-throughput phylogenomics

(2009) J. E. Decker et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Identification of an endogenous retroviral envelope gene with fusogenic activity and placenta-specific expression in the rabbit: a new "syncytin" in a third order of mammals

(2009) Odile Heidmann et al.   Retrovirology

Effects of Retroviruses on Host Genome Function

(2008) Patric Jern et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Early patterning of the chorion leads to the trilaminar trophoblast cell structure in the placental labyrinth

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