mortality/aging
• embryonic survival is halved
(J:5498)
• death occurs at the morula-blastocyst and pre-egg cylinder stages
(J:5498)
• embryonic death also occurs when the source of eggs is a transplanted ovary, implicating an abnormal egg and sperm interaction as the cause of lethality
(J:24716)
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embryo
reproductive system
• meiotic drive occurs at MII but preferential death of one subsequent genotypic class of embryo does not play a large role in transmission ratio distortion
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• there is maternal transmission ratio distortion in favor of DDK alleles
• due to nonrandom segregation of chromatids at the second meiotic division
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cellular
• meiotic drive occurs at MII but preferential death of one subsequent genotypic class of embryo does not play a large role in transmission ratio distortion
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