Guillaume Cornelis

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

Guillaume Cornelis, Odile Heidmann, Séverine A. Degrelle et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2013 · 153 citations · Full text

Retroviral envelope gene captures and <i>syncytin</i> exaptation for placentation in marsupials

Guillaume Cornelis, Cécile Vernochet, Quentin Carradec et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2015 · 141 citations · Full text

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

Guillaume Cornelis, Odile Heidmann, Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2012 · 127 citations · Full text

An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placental <i>Mabuya</i> lizard

Guillaume Cornelis, Mathis Funk, Cécile Vernochet et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 106 citations

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

Cécile Esnault, Guillaume Cornelis, Odile Heidmann et al. · PLoS Genetics · 2013 · 90 citations · Full text