mortality/aging
• males live no more than two months
• no females live beyond one month
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• reduced numbers of homozygotes found at 2 weeks of age
• about 1/3 of males and 1/10 of females live beyond 1 week of age
• some deaths occur in the first days of life
• homozygotes are under represented at E19.5
• homozygotes are present in normal numbers at E13.5/E14.5 although MEFs purified from them grow poorly
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growth/size/body
reproductive system
• begins but arrests with pachytene/diplotene spermatocytes at 25 days of age
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