mortality/aging
• survival normal through to birth
• many die within the first 5 days of life
• surviving mice are fertile
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skeleton
• the rib fusions on the two sides of the stermum are offset from one another
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• the atlas is narrower than normal
• intermediate transformation of atlas in 15% of mice, remains independent vertebrum but osseous bridges develop to skull
• atlantal neural arch is usually incomplete
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• the anterior arch of the atlas is assimilated into caudal part of the basioccipital bone
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• axis lacks superior articular surfaces
• thicker neural arch on axis
• cartilaginous foramina of normal atlas now in axis (sometimes only unilateral)
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• axis lacks dens
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cardiovascular system
• vertebral artery enters spinal canal more caudally than normal
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nervous system
• first cervical nerve runs through a foramen in the floor of the skull
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craniofacial
• the anterior arch of the atlas is assimilated into caudal part of the basioccipital bone
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