mortality/aging
• embryos die at or soon after E9.5
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cardiovascular system
• defective heart looping
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• at E9.5
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embryo
• mandibular component of the first branchial arch is severely reduced
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• mandibular component is fused in the midline
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• mutants exhibit a kink in the truck with dorsal instead of ventral curling of the tail, indicating that embryo turning is impaired
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• left/right asymmetry is disrupted as indicated by defective heart looping and disrupted asymmetric expression of Nodal in the left lateral plate mesoderm
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• small at E9.5
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• midline fusion of the anterior lips of the cephalic neural plate and a poorly defined or absent midline groove
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• E8.25 mutants exhibit midline defects of the neural plate in the prospective forebrain
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• the ventral neural tube develops as an undifferentiated epithelial tube
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• marker analysis indicates somite patterning defects
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nervous system
• E8.25 mutants exhibit midline defects of the neural plate in the prospective forebrain
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• the ventral neural tube develops as an undifferentiated epithelial tube
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growth/size/body
• small at E9.5
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vision/eye
• incomplete separation of the bilateral evaginations that form the optic vesicles and by E8.5, the bilateral cup-like evaginations are replaced by a deep single evagination
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craniofacial
• mandibular component of the first branchial arch is severely reduced
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• mandibular component is fused in the midline
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