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The XO and OY chromosome constitutions in the mouse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

T. Morris
T. Morris
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Medical Research Council, Radiobiological Research Unit, Harwell, Didcot, Berks.
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A study was made of reproductive performance and embryonic mortality in XO and XX females. In the stock used, the mean litter size of XO females (4·46) was greatly below that of XX ones (8·17). One series of pregnant females of both karyotypes was dissected after 15 days' gestation, and another series after 3½days' gestation. In the former, there was a significantly greater amount of embryonic mortality in XO females both before implantation and at the small and large mole stages. By far the greater amount occurred before implantation. The data from dissections after 3½ days' gestation concerned pre-implantation embryos, since normal embryos at this point are at the late morula or early blastocyst stage. The embryos from XO females contained a large group of obviously and characteristically abnormal ones; they comprised 60/280 of the embryos from XO females, compared with 4/189 of the XX ones. They appeared to have developed abnormally from a very early stage, probably the two-cell stage, and were considered to represent the missing OY class of zygotes. In addition, it was concluded that there was probably an abnormally low segregation of nullo-X gametes from XO females.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , October 1968 , pp. 125 - 137
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1968

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