Maternal Effects on Embryonic and Placental Growth and the Penetrance of the Luxate Gene in Mice.

Authors

Mary Kathleen Spaner, University of Alabama at Birmingham

Document Type

Thesis

Date of Award

1976

Abstract

Preaxial polydactyly is one of the most frequent limb anomalies in man, and sporadically occurs in poultry, pigeons, and in the hindlimbs of cats, dogs, mice and guinea pigs (Carter, 1954). Polydactyly is detectable by the stage of footplate morphogenesis, but it is inducible before hind-limb bud formation by irradiation of mouse embryos at 8 and 9 days of development (Russell, 1950). Russell's observations are significant because they suggest that polydactyly results from more than minor local disturbances of footplate morphogenesis.

Comments

MS - Master of Science/Master of Surgery; ProQuest publication number 31752079

Recommended Citation

Spaner, Mary Kathleen, "Maternal Effects on Embryonic and Placental Growth and the Penetrance of the Luxate Gene in Mice." (1976). All ETDs from UAB. 7159.
https://digitalcommons.library.uab.edu/etd-collection/7159