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Hybrid vigor and transgenerational epigenetic effects on early mouse embryo phenotype.
Biology of reproduction - 1 Oct 2008
Han Zhiming, Mtango Namdori R, Patel Bela G, Sapienza Carmen, Latham Keith E
Abstract excerpt
Mouse embryos display a strain-dependent propensity for blastomere cytofragmentation at the two-cell stage. The maternal pronucleus exerts a predominant, transcription-dependent effect on this phenotype, with lesser effects of the ooplasm and the paternal pronucleus. A parental origin effect has been observed as an inequality in the cytofragmentation rate of embryos produced through genetic crosses of reciprocal...
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