scholarly journals Embryonic Lethal Mutation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
1988 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monica J. Justice ◽  
Vernon C. Bode

SummaryThe quaking (qk) locus on mouse chromosome 17 has been defined by a single viable quaking allele. Three new alleles of quaking were selected after ENU mutagenesis by their failure to complement the quaking phenotype. The qkk2 allele was induced on wild-type chromatin and the qkkt1 and qkkt4 alleles were induced on t-chromatin. Each is a recessive embryonic lethal mutation. They fail to complement each other and are not complemented by the deletion, TtOrl. Homozygotes and hemizygotes die at 8–9·5 days gestation, but not at a single precise time. Because the classical quaking mutation complements the lethality of these new alleles, but they fail to complement its quaking phenotype (myelination defect), we conclude that the quaking+ function is required for embryonic survival as well as for myelination.


Nature ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 300 (5891) ◽  
pp. 401-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keith R. Willison

1966 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 207-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
U. K. ABBOTT ◽  
J. A. MACCABE

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (18) ◽  
pp. 4260-4268 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.C. Maandag ◽  
M. van der Valk ◽  
M. Vlaar ◽  
C. Feltkamp ◽  
J. O'Brien ◽  
...  

When the sons of irradiated mice are mated to their own daughters, the average size of the ensuing litters will depend on the number of recessive embryonic lethal genes segregating; it can therefore be used to estimate the rate of induction of recessive lethal mutation by the radiation, provided that one can show that any change is not due to dominant sublethals or semisteriles. Data from an experiment in which mouse sperm were exposed to low accumu­lated doses of radium γ -radiation lead to an estimate of one recessive lethal per 300 roentgen. This is 23 times the corresponding rate for Drosophila melanogaster . It may be compared with the results reported by Russell (1952), who found that the rate of induction of recessive visibles per locus in mouse spermatogonia is 15 times the Drosophila rate; and with those of Vendrely (1955), who found that mouse nuclei have 29 times as much desoxyribonucleic acid as Drosophila nuclei. It is suggested that the mouse may have only slightly more genes than Drosophila , but that each may be about 19 times as large and, for this reason, about 19 times as sensitive to radiation-induced mutation. Implications for human radiogenetic studies are discussed.


1991 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 529-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Masaoki TSUDZUKI ◽  
Noboru WAKASUGI ◽  
Hiroshi MORIOKA ◽  
Kozaburo ESAKI

Nature ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 304 (5924) ◽  
pp. 315-320 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Schnieke ◽  
Klaus Harbers ◽  
Rudolf Jaenisch

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