Abstract
To examine the degree of the relative contribution of genetic and environmental effects to preimplantation development of mouse embryo in vitro, two-cell stage embryos collected from oviducts of five strains of inbred mice (DDD/Qdj, C3H/Qdj, C57BL/6J Sea, DBA/1J Sea, and BALB/C Sea) were cultivated up to the stage of expanded blasytocyst for 72 hr. Both fertility and survival rates were calculated in each recipient and also in each strain. A Student-Newman-Keuls test for both rates showed a significant inter-strain difference and an analysis of variance done to estimate the relative importance of genetic and environmental effects on the preimplantation development of embryo showed a low degree of genetic determination for both rates. It was thus possible to conclude that the environmental effect played a more important role on preimplantation development of mouse embryo in vitro.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 202-205 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Journal of Craniofacial Genetics and Developmental Biology |
Volume | 13 |
Issue number | 3 |
Publication status | Published - Jan 1 1993 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Genetics
- Developmental Biology