Article
Dominant lethality of the mouse skeletal mutation tail-short (Ts) is determined by the Ts allele from mating partners.
Genomics - 1 May 1998
Ishijima J, Yasui H, Morishima M, Shiroishi T
Abstract excerpt
Mice with the Tail-short (Ts) mutation have a short, kinky tail and numerous skeletal abnormalities, including a homeotic anteroposterior patterning problem involving the axial skeleton. The viability of Ts heterozygotes varies dramatically, depending on the mouse strain crossed with the mutant s...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Chromosome Mapping
- Crosses, Genetic
- Embryonic and Fetal Development
- Female
- Fetal Resorption
- Genes, Dominant
- Genes, Lethal
- Genotype
- Gestational Age
- Heterozygote
- Litter Size
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Mice, Mutant Strains
- Pregnancy