Maternal care boosted by paternal imprinting in mammals.

In mammals, mothers are the primary caregiver, programmed, in part, by hormones produced during pregnancy. High-quality maternal care is essential for the survival and lifelong health of offspring. We previously showed that the paternally silenced imprinted gene pleckstrin homology-like domain famil...

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Main Authors: H D J Creeth, G I McNamara, S J Tunster, R Boque-Sastre, B Allen, L Sumption, J B Eddy, A R Isles, R M John
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-07-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2006599