Differential Evolutionary Fate of an Ancestral Primate Endogenous Retrovirus Envelope Gene, the EnvV Syncytin, Captured for a Function in Placentation

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

(2012) A. Dupressoir et al.   PLACENTA

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

(2012) G. Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A pair of co-opted retroviral envelope syncytin genes is required for formation of the two-layered murine placental syncytiotrophoblast

(2011) A. Dupressoir et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Molecular Phylogeny of Living Primates

(2011) Polina Perelman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Endogenous Retroviruses in Trophoblast Differentiation and Placental Development

(2010) Sarah G. Black et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

Evolution of invasive placentation with special reference to non-human primates

(2010) Anthony M. Carter et al.   BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL OBSTETRICS & GYNAECOLOGY

Friendly Viruses

(2009) Mariana Varela et al.   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Placental structure: in a comparative aspect

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

Syncytin-2 Plays an Important Role in the Fusion of Human Trophoblast Cells

(2009) Amandine Vargas et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

SeaView Version 4: A Multiplatform Graphical User Interface for Sequence Alignment and Phylogenetic Tree Building

(2009) M. Gouy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

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

Gene conversion and purifying selection of a placenta-specific ERV-V envelope gene during simian evolution

(2008) Anders L Kjeldbjerg et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The Macaque Placenta—A Mini-Review

(2008) Eveline P. C. T. de Rijk et al.   TOXICOLOGIC PATHOLOGY