mortality/aging
• no homozygous embryos are recovered between E5.5 And 7.5; empty deciduae or deciduae filled with cellular debris are observed
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embryo
• homozygous embryos do not hatch and many cells vacuolize and die
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• outer cells of blastocyst round up with clearly reduced cell-cell contacts
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• mutant show loosening of cell-cell contacts, form no blastocyst cavity or form small cyst-like cavities when an outer layerseparate from the inner layer
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• between 3.5 and 4.5 homozygotes cannot form intact trophectoderm
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reproductive system
• empty deciduae or deciduae filled with cellular debris are observed
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