ReviewJournal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology2011
A review of the evolution of viviparity in squamate reptiles: the past, present and future role of molecular biology and genomics.
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- Genome-Wide Mining of lncRNAs Reveals Their Potential Regulatory Role in the Evolution of Viviparity.Integrative zoology · 2026Article
- Comparative Transcriptomic Analyses Identify Candidate Genes for Convergent Reproductive Shifts in a Bimodal Viviparous Amphibian.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Mechanistic understanding of female reproductive aging based on the chicken model.Journal of animal science and biotechnology · 2026Review
- Clinal Variation in Reproductive Modes and Offspring Body Condition Across a Contact Zone of a Bimodal Viviparous Salamander.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Evolutionary Patterns of Maternal Recognition of Pregnancy and Implantation in Eutherian Mammals.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Review
- Live-bearing cockroach genome reveals convergent evolutionary mechanisms linked to viviparity in insects and beyond.iScience · 2023Article
- Understanding the evolution of viviparity using intraspecific variation in reproductive mode and transitional forms of pregnancy.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Article
- Different Genes are Recruited During Convergent Evolution of Pregnancy and the Placenta.Molecular biology and evolution · 2022Article
- Transport of maternal transthyretin to the fetus in the viviparous teleost Neoditrema ransonnetii (Perciformes, Embiotocidae).Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2020Article
- A comparison of uterine contractile responsiveness to arginine vasopressin in oviparous and viviparous lizards.Journal of comparative physiology. B, Biochemical, systemic, and environmental physiology · 2020Article
- Distinct telomere differences within a reproductively bimodal common lizard population.Functional ecology · 2019Article
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- Genomic and transcriptomic investigations of the evolutionary transition from oviparity to viviparity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placentalProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2017Article
- Reptile Pregnancy Is Underpinned by Complex Changes in Uterine Gene Expression: A Comparative Analysis of the Uterine Transcriptome in Viviparous and Oviparous Lizards.Genome biology and evolution · 2016Article
- Rapid molecular evolution across amniotes of the IIS/TOR network.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Novel X-linked genes revealed by quantitative polymerase chain reaction in the green anole, Anolis carolinensis.G3 (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Article
- The origin and evolution of genomic imprinting and viviparity in mammals.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2013Review
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- Uterine gene expression in the live-bearing lizard, Chalcides ocellatus, reveals convergence of squamate reptile and mammalian pregnancy mechanisms.Genome biology and evolution · 2012Article
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Abstract
Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) offer a unique model system for testing hypotheses about the evolutionary transition from oviparity (egg-laying) to viviparity (live-bearing) in amniote vertebrates. The evolution of squamate viviparity has occurred remarkably frequently (>108 times) and has resulted in major changes in reproductive physiology. Such frequent changes in reproductive strategy pose two questions: (1) what are the molecular mechanisms responsible for the evolution of squamate viviparity? (2) Are these molecular mechanisms the same for separate origins of viviparity? Molecular approaches, such as RT-PCR, in situ hybridisation, Western blotting and immunofluorescence, have been invaluable for identifying genes and proteins that are involved in squamate placental development, materno-foetal immunotolerance, placental transport, placental angiogenesis, hormone synthesis and hormone receptor expression. However, the candidate-gene or -protein approach that has been used until now does not allow for de novo gene/protein discovery; results to date suggest that the reproductive physiologies of mammals and squamate reptiles are very similar, but this conclusion may simply be due to a limited capacity to study the subset of genes and proteins that are unique to reptiles. Progress has also been slowed by the lack of appropriate molecular and genomic resources for squamate reptiles. The advent of next-generation sequencing provides a relatively inexpensive way to conduct rapid high-throughput sequencing of genomes and transcriptomes. We discuss the potential use of next-generation sequencing technologies to analyse differences in gene expression between oviparous and viviparous squamates, provide important sequence information for reptiles, and generate testable hypotheses for the evolution of viviparity.
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