Evidence for selection against tetraploid cells in tetraploid⇆diploid mouse chimaeras before the late blastocyst stage

Genetical Research

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 225-228

  Everett, Clare A ^a   West, John D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLASTOCYST; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TETRAPLOIDY;

ANIMALS; BLASTOCYST; CHIMERA; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GLOBINS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; PLOIDIES;

ANIMALIA; CHIMAERIFORMES; RODENTIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032410151     PISSN: 00166723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0016672398003498     Document Type: Article

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