Evolution of embryo implantation was enabled by the origin of decidual cells in eutherian mammals
A. R. Chavan, O. W. Griffith, D. Stadtmauer, J. Maziarz, M. Pavlicev, R. Fishman, L. Koren, R. Romero, G. P. Wagner
This study identifies the evolutionary mechanism by which decidual cells in eutherian mammals suppressed IL17A signaling to enable embryo implantation.
bioRxiv · Sep 27, 2018Evolutionary Biology