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Role of retrotransposon-derived imprinted gene, Rtl1, in the feto-maternal interface of mouse placenta

Yoichi Sekita, Hirotaka Wagatsuma, Kenji Nakamura, Ryuichi Ono, Masayo Kagami, Noriko Wakisaka, Toshiaki Hino, Rika Suzuki-Migishima, Takashi Kohda, Atsuo Ogura,

Nature Genetics · 2008 · 326 citations · 24 references

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Exaptation—a Missing Term in the Science of Form

Stephen Jay Gould, Elisabeth S. Vrba · Paleobiology · 1982 · 5.1K citations

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Syncytin is a captive retroviral envelope protein involved in human placental morphogenesis

Sha Mi, Xinhua Lee, Xiangping Li et al. · Nature · 2000 · 1.7K citations

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Placental-specific IGF-II is a major modulator of placental and fetal growth

Miguel Constância, Myriam Hemberger, Jennifer Hughes et al. · Nature · 2002 · 1.1K citations

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Junk DNA as an evolutionary force

Christian Biémont, Cristina Vieira · Nature · 2006 · 693 citations

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A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon

Gill Bejerano, Craig B. Lowe, Nadav Ahituv et al. · Nature · 2006 · 507 citations

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