Cross-species insights into placental evolution and diseases at the single-cell resolution
Guanghui Tan, Ao Zhang, Xuesha Cao, Jingyu Yang, Youjie Cui, Fei Wang, Tao Shi, Hengkuan Li, Haoping Wang, Huiquan Shan, Jilong Ren, Yaqi Zhou, Menghan Wang, Funong Luo, Xi Guo, , Yu Jiang
This study constructs a cross-species single-cell transcriptomic atlas of placentas across ten mammalian species, revealing trophoblast lineage dynamics and gene regulatory networks linked to placental evolution and disease.
Nature Communications · May 9, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology