Article
Blind-sterile: a new mutation on chromosome 2 of the house mouse.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Varnum D S
Abstract excerpt
The inheritance and developmental effects of a new recessive mutation in the mouse, blind-sterile (bs), are described. This mutation causes lenticular cataracts and glossy coat in males and females and sterility in males due to arrested spermatogenesis. Blind-sterile is located on chromosome 2, near agouti.
Topics
- Animals
- Blindness
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Chromosome Disorders
- Chromosomes
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Infertility, Male
- Male
- Mice
- Mutation
- Spermatogenesis
- Testis
