Article
Inheritance of a meiotic abnormality that causes the ovulation of primary oocytes and the production of digynic triploid mice.
Genetical research - 1 Dec 1993
West J D, Webb S, Kaufman M H
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have demonstrated that the LT/SvKau strain of mice ovulates a high proportion of oocytes as diploid primary oocytes rather than secondary oocytes. These ovulated primary oocytes are arrested at meiotic metaphase I but may be fertilized to produce digynic triploid embryos. In the...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Female
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Recessive
- Meiosis
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Oocytes
- Ovulation
- Polyploidy
