Microparasites and Placental Invasiveness in Eutherian Mammals.

Placental invasiveness-the number of maternal tissue layers separating fetal tissues from maternal blood-is variable across mammalian species. Although this diversity is likely to be functionally important, variation in placental invasiveness remains unexplained. Here we test the hypothesis that inc...

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Main Authors: Isabella Capellini, Charles L Nunn, Robert A Barton
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4500545?pdf=render