mortality/aging
• no homozygotes are recovered from heterozygous intercrosses, with about 25% deciduae found degenerated at E10.5 or E13.5
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embryo
• at E10.5, four of 22 deciduae from heterozygous intercrosses appear smaller with placentas and sometimes remaining gastrulating embryos, suggesting that embryos can develop past E6.5
• at E13.5, nine of 30 deciduae are degenerated
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