mortality/aging
• no homozygous pups recovered
• homozygotes are very small at E9.5 and undergoing resorption
• blastocysts are morphologically normal at E3.5
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embryo
• apoptotic cells at E5.5 unlike controls
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• embryo stem cells have a self renewal deficit
• reduced transcriptional output of embryo stem cells
• decreased ES cell nucleolar size and less circular shape
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• lack of expression of the nascent mesoderm markers brachyury (T) and Wnt3 at the posterior end of the embryo
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• fail to undergo gastrulation
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• embryo development is arrested between E5.5 and E6.5 prior to anterior-posterior patterning
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• decreased embryo size at E6.5
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• small epiblast at E5.5 due to an increase in apoptotic cell death and a delay in progression through mitosis
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• failure to express markers of the extra-embryonic ectoderm at E6.5
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• failure to express the AVE protein marker Lefty1
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growth/size/body
• decreased embryo size at E6.5
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cellular
• number of CENP-A foci detected per epiblast cell is significantly reduced at E5.5
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• apoptotic cells at E5.5 unlike controls
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