mortality/aging
• homozygous null embryos were able to survive until 5.5 dpc
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embryo
• RT-PCR analysis revealed that, by the blastocyst stage, maternal cyclin A2 mRNA was no longer detectable in homozygous null embryos
• maternally derived stocks of cyclin A2 mRNA persisted in the fertilized oocyte through the first mitosis and were then degraded at the late two-cell stage, concurrent with the activation of the zygotic genome
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• abnormal or homozygous null embryos ceased development shortly after implantation
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