The Captured Retroviral Envelope syncytin-A and syncytin-B Genes Are Conserved in the Spalacidae Together with Hemotrichorial Placentation1

Capture of syncytin-Mar1, a Fusogenic Endogenous Retroviral Envelope Gene Involved in Placentation in the Rodentia Squirrel-Related Clade

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Fematrin-1 Is Involved in Fetomaternal Cell-to-Cell Fusion in Bovinae Placenta and Has Contributed to Diversity of Ruminant Placentation

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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

Ecological Opportunity and Incumbency in the Diversification of Repeated Continental Colonizations by Muroid Rodents

(2013) John J. Schenk et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Stress, adaptation, and speciation in the evolution of the blind mole rat, Spalax, in Israel

(2012) Eviatar Nevo   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Endogenous viruses: insights into viral evolution and impact on host biology

(2012) Cédric Feschotte et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Is Evolution of Blind Mole Rats Determined by Climate Oscillations?

(2012) Yarin Hadid et al.   PLoS One

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 syncytin-like endogenous retrovirus envelope gene of the guinea pig specifically expressed in the placenta junctional zone and conserved in Caviomorpha

(2011) C. Vernochet et al.   PLACENTA

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

Reduced Expression of Both Syncytin 1 and Syncytin 2 Correlates With Severity of Preeclampsia

(2011) Amandine Vargas et al.   Reproductive Sciences

Endogenous Retroviruses in Trophoblast Differentiation and Placental Development

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

Syncytin-1 and Glial Cells Missing a: Hypoxia-Induced Deregulated Gene Expression along with Disordered Cell Fusion in Primary Term Human Trophoblasts

(2009) C. Wich et al.   GYNECOLOGIC AND OBSTETRIC INVESTIGATION

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

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

(2008) D. G. Simmons et al.   DEVELOPMENT