mortality/aging
• no mutant mice are recovered at birth
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embryo
• mutants are 36% larger than wild-type at E18.5
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• placentas of mutant embryos are 30% larger than corresponding wild-type organs of E18.5 embryos
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growth/size/body
• mutants are 36% larger than wild-type at E18.5
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respiratory system
• at E18.5, lungs are poorly developed
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• low frequency of bronchiole structures is observed
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limbs/digits/tail
short tail
(
J:80932
)
• tails of embryos are shorter and blunter than wild-type
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kinked tail
(
J:80932
)
• some mutant tails possess a characteristic kink in the tip
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cellular
• the paternally-inherited Igf2r allele is normallly silenced through genomic imprinting so embryos inheriting the Igf2r-null allele maternally are functionally homozygous knockouts
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