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Reproductive and neurological Quaking(viable) phenotypes in a severe combined immune deficient mouse background.
Immunogenetics - 1 May 2005
Tucker Tammy A, Kundert Jean A, Bondareva Alla A, Schmidt Edward E
Abstract excerpt
The quaking(viable) (qkv) mutation, a spontaneous deletion of a multigenic region encompassing roughly 1 Mb at 5.9 cM on the proximal end of mouse chromosome 17, causes severe trembling in all homozygous animals and infertility in all homozygous males. Physiologically, quaking mice exhibit dysmyelination and postmeiotic spermatogenic arrest. Molecular defects in Qkv mice occur in the affected tissues, indicating...
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