Maternal recognition of pregnancy in the horse: are miRNAs the secret messengers?

The concept ‘maternal recognition of pregnancy’ (MRP) refers to the physiological events leading to the maintenance of gestation. In the horse, the signal for MRP remains a big mystery, despite several decades of elaborate research. Our general objective is to unravel embryo-maternal communication in the horse through a holistic approach using high-throughput systems biology (transcriptomics-miRNomics-proteomics).