mortality/aging
• mutants die at 10 days post-coitum (dpc)
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embryo
• mutant embryos lack tissue anterior to rhombomere 3 at 9.5 dpc
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• during gastrulation, embryos display a constriction of variable severity
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• length of primitive streak is shortened relative to wild-type
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nervous system
• mutant embryos lack tissue anterior to rhombomere 3 at 9.5 dpc
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• embryos lack midbrain tissue at 9.5 dpc
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• embryos lack forebrain tissue at 9.5 dpc
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growth/size/body
• abnormalities in anterior head region are detectable at 8 dpc; defects appear to be completely penetrant
• mutants show anterior head truncations at boundary of rhombomeres 2 and 3 of hindbrain
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