mortality/aging
• at E3.5, homozygous embryos are found with 7.5% frequency rather than expected 25%
• at E2.5, 16.8% of embryos are homozygous rather than expected 25%
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• no homozygous embryos are recovered beyond E6.5; only one embryo was identified at E6.5, and it was smaller and partially resorbed
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embryo
• at E3.5, embryos display a range of developmental stages, from 4-cell stage to normal blastocyst stage embryos
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• embryos appear to have arrested around E3.5; most embryos display fewer cell numbers, some with as few as 4 blastomeres, and most have not undergone compaction
• at E2.5, embryos display an early proliferation defect with most having 4-8 cells compared to most wild-type embryos containing 8-16 cells
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