Please cite as: CSH Protocols; 2006; doi:10.1101/pdb.prot4425
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This protocol was adapted from "Production of Chimeras," Chapter 11, in Manipulating the Mouse Embryo, 3rd edition, by Andras Nagy, Marina Gertsenstein, Kristina Vintersten, and Richard Behringer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA, 2003.
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INTRODUCTION
This protocol describes a method for producing diploid embryo-tetraploid embryo chimeras. It requires the timed combination of four-cell-stage tetraploid embryo production and the procedure for diploid embryo-diploid embryo aggregation. The resulting chimeras are useful for phenotypic analysis when an induced mutation has an extraembryonic phenotype.
MATERIALS
Reagents
Embryos, diploid, 2.5-days post coitum (dpc) (see Collecting Two-Cell- to Compacted Morula-Stage Embryos)
Embryos, tetraploid (see Production of
Equipment
METHOD
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