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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 present study, 40.4% of eggs analysed from LT/SvKau females were ovulated as primary oocytes, compared to 1.2% from...
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