mortality/aging
• most died within a few hours of birth, apparently from respiratory failure
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embryo
• loss of left-right axis somite symmetry
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• disrupted anterior-posterior polarity of the somites
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• somites were irregular in both size and shape, and the boundaries between somites were less clear
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• somites were irregular in both size and shape, and the boundaries between somites were less clear
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• abnormal segmentation
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growth/size/body
limbs/digits/tail
short tail
(
J:72325
)
skeleton
• 8 to 9 pairs of ribs (normally 13)
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rib fusion
(
J:72325
)
• segmentation defects
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• defective patterning of intervertebral disks
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• malformation of neural arches
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• malformation of vertebral bodies
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• defective patterning of vertebral bodies
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