mortality/aging
• embryos arrested at the blastocyst stage
• heterozygous intercrosses revealed no null embryos between E6.5 and E8.5
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embryo
• in mutant embryos, both the TE and ICM lineages failed to expand normally between the morula and blastocyst stages
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• in mutant embryos, both the TE and ICM lineages failed to expand normally between the morula and blastocyst stages
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• morulae cultured failed to hatch embryos and eventually collapsed
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• the majority of E3.5 mutant embryos had either no cavity or a small cavity
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cellular
• in mutant embryos, both the TE and ICM lineages failed to expand normally between the morula and blastocyst stages
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• in mutant embryos, both the TE and ICM lineages failed to expand normally between the morula and blastocyst stages
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