The placenta goes viral: Retroviruses control gene expression in pregnancy

Anthropoid primate–specific retroviral element THE1B controls expression of CRH in placenta and alters gestation length

(2018) Caitlin E. Dunn-Fletcher et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Transposable Element Exaptation into Regulatory Regions Is Rare, Influenced by Evolutionary Age, and Subject to Pleiotropic Constraints

(2017) Corinne N. Simonti et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The core transcriptome of mammalian placentas and the divergence of expression with placental shape

(2017) Don L. Armstrong et al.   PLACENTA

An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placentalMabuyalizard

(2017) Guillaume Cornelis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Marine origin of retroviruses in the early Palaeozoic Era

(2017) Pakorn Aiewsakun et al.   Nature Communications

Co-option of endogenous viral sequences for host cell function

(2017) John A .Frank et al.   Current Opinion in Virology

The placenta as a model for understanding the origin and evolution of vertebrate organs

(2017) Oliver W. Griffith et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

A distant trophoblast-specific enhancer controls HLA-G expression at the maternal–fetal interface

(2016) Leonardo M. R. Ferreira et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Baton pass hypothesis: successive incorporation of unconserved endogenous retroviral genes for placentation during mammalian evolution

(2015) Kazuhiko Imakawa et al.   GENES TO CELLS

Detecting Endogenous Retrovirus-Driven Tissue-Specific Gene Transcription

(2015) Mihaela Pavlicev et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Only humans have human placentas: molecular differences between mice and humans

(2015) André Schmidt et al.   JOURNAL OF REPRODUCTIVE IMMUNOLOGY

A review of inter- and intraspecific variation in the eutherian placenta

(2015) W. E. Gundling et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Endogenous retroviruses function as species-specific enhancer elements in the placenta

(2013) Edward B Chuong et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Paleovirology of 'syncytins', retroviral env genes exapted for a role in placentation

(2013) C. Lavialle et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The human placenta methylome

(2013) D. I. Schroeder et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Diversification of the eutherian placenta is associated with changes in the pace of life

(2013) M. Garratt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Majority of Primate-Specific Regulatory Sequences Are Derived from Transposable Elements

(2013) Pierre-Étienne Jacques et al.   PLoS Genetics

Retroviruses and the Placenta

(2012) David Haig   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2012) A. Dupressoir et al.   PLACENTA

DNA Methylation Profiles Define Stem Cell Identity and Reveal a Tight Embryonic-Extraembryonic Lineage Boundary

(2012) Claire E. Senner et al.   STEM CELLS

Multiple Epigenetic Modifiers Induce Aggressive Viral Extinction in Extraembryonic Endoderm Stem Cells

(2010) Michael C. Golding et al.   Cell Stem Cell

Distinct histone modifications in stem cell lines and tissue lineages from the early mouse embryo

(2010) P. J. Rugg-Gunn et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA