mortality/aging
• homozygous embryos are observed in significant numbers at the 1-cell (31%) and 2-cell (19%) stages, but is below 5% at 4- and 8-cell stages, and is 0% at later stages
• when fertilized eggs from heterozygous crosses are cultured, by day 5, 94% of homozygous embryos reach the blastocyst stage compared to 86% for wild-type embryos. Homozygous embryos show a delay in reaching morula stage by day 3, but catch up on day 4 and start growing slightly faster than wild-type on days 5 and 6
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