The mammalian decidual cell evolved from a cellular stress response

• Eric M. Erkenbrack,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9375-3279

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• Jamie D. Maziarz,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Oliver W. Griffith,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, School of Biosciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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• Cong Liang,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliations Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Interdepartmental Program in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Arun R. Chavan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Visualization

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Mauris C. Nnamani,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Günter P. Wagner

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: gunter.wagner@yale.edu

  Affiliations Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Systems Biology Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Science, Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

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