Day 7, Placentophagy?

According to this article the loss of PEG1/MEST results in impared placentophagy in mice.

I quote wikipedia: “Placentophagy is the act of mammals eating the placenta of their young after childbirth”

Some other results are: embryonic growth retardation, reduced survival rate and abnormal maternal behaviour. This did not help

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