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Development, Vol 103, Issue 1 171-178, Copyright © 1988 by Company of Biologists
JOURNAL ARTICLES |
MA Surani, SC Barton, SK Howlett and ML Norris
Department of Molecular Embryology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge, UK.
We have examined the role of germline-specific chromosomal determinants of development in the mouse. Studies were carried out using aggregation chimaeras between androgenetic----fertilized embryos and compared with similar parthenogenetic----fertilized chimaeras. Several adult chimaeras were found with parthenogenetic cells but none were found with androgenetic cells. Analysis of chimaeras at mid-gestation showed that parthenogenetic cells were detected in the embryo and yolk sac but that androgenetic cells were found only in the trophoblast and yolk sac and not in the embryo. The contribution of parthenogenetic cells to the embryo and yolk sac was increased by aggregating 2-cell parthenogenetic and 4-cell fertilized embryos but the contribution of parthenogenetic cells in extraembryonic tissues remained negligible even after aggregation of 4-cell parthenogenetic and 2-cell fertilized embryos. Furthermore, parthenogenetic cells were primarily found in the yolk sac mesoderm and not in the yolk sac endoderm. These results suggest that maternal chromosomes in parthenogenetic cells permit their participation in the primitive ectoderm lineage but these cells are presumably eliminated by selective pressure or autonomous cell lethality from the primitive endoderm and trophectoderm lineages. Conversely paternal chromosomes in androgenetic cells confer opposite properties since the embryonic cells can be detected in the trophoblast and the yolk sac but not in the embryos, presumably because they are eliminated from the primitive ectoderm lineage. The spatial distribution of cells with different parental chromosomes may occur partly because of differential expression of some genes, such as proto-oncogenes, and partly due to their ability to respond to a variety of diffusible growth factors.
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