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Any broad understanding of the cellular and molecular aspects of embryonic implantation in the mammalian uterus would be expected to benefit from experimental evidence obtained from as great a variety of mammals as possible. Not only have two sharply divergent strategies been evolved for regulating the implantation event—allowing a division between those manmials capable of inducing a reversible growth arrest in the blastocyst and those incapable of doing so—but it is apparent that further refinements in implantation mechanisms characterize individual families or even genera of mammals—such as the single implantation site available to the several hundred embryos of the elephant shrew (Van der Horst and Gillman, 1942). Furthermore, as the implantation event requires the interaction of two competent tissues, the achievement of this competence by each tissue must be understood before a satisfactory comprehension of the event can be achieved.
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Manes, C., Byers, M.J., Carver, A.S. (1981). Mobilization of Genetic Information in the Early Rabbit Trophoblast. In: Glasser, S.R., Bullock, D.W. (eds) Cellular and Molecular Aspects of Implantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-3180-3_9
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