skeleton
• some mice exhibit an extra sternebra between the fourth sternebra and the xiphoid process
• some mice had one or several fewer sternebrae even though extra sternebrae may have developed between the fourth sternebrae and xiphoid process upon transformation of L1 to T14
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• in 86% of mice
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• in some mice
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rib fusion
(
J:137385
)
• in some mice
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• anterior skeletal transformation are not associated with prenatal lethality
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• 70% of mice exhibit a T12 to T10 transformation
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• at E18.5 and P0, 45% of mice exhibit a transformation of L1 to a thoracic segments
• 40% of mice exhibit L3 to L2 transformations while only one mouse exhibited anapophysis on L4
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