Article
Expression of the IV (reversed and/or heterotaxic) phenotype in SWV mice.
Teratology - 1 Jun 1993
Layton W M, Layton M W, Binder M, Kurnit D M, Hanzlik A J, Van Keuren M, Biddle F G
Abstract excerpt
Approximately 50% of iv/iv mice have situs inversus (mirror image reversal of viscera) and 40% have heterotaxia (anomalous arrangement of viscera). The occurrence of heterotaxia is independent of situs. Using the cross-intercross breeding system to put the iv gene on the SWV background, an occasi...
Topics
- Animals
- Crosses, Genetic
- Female
- Gene Expression
- Heterozygote
- Male
- Mice
- Phenotype
- Situs Inversus
- Species Specificity