TABLE 2.
Fate of transferred blastocysts at term and during postnatal development
| Experiment | Number of RB transferred1 |
Number of young born |
Number of chimaeric animals | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overtly chimaeric | Non-overtly chimaeric2 |
|||||
| Dead | Alive | Dead | Alive | |||
| Control | 140 | 10 | 85 | — | — | — |
| Synchronous | ||||||
| 4 day black DC | 100 | 12 | 69 | 6 | 8 | 2 |
| 4 day albino RB | ||||||
| 4 day albino DC | 92 | 15 | 57 | 0 | 4 | 3 |
| 4 day black RB | ||||||
| Asynchronous | ||||||
| 5.5 day black DC | 72 | 18 | 40 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 3.5 day albino RB | ||||||
| 5.5 day albino DC | 63 | 16 | 37 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
| 3.5 day black RB | ||||||
| 8 day black DC | 60 | 21 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 day albino RB | ||||||
| 8 day albino DC | 72 | 23 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 day black RB | ||||||
DC designates donor cells.
RB designates recipient blastocysts.
1
These values do not include blastocysts transferred into females which did not become pregnant.
2
These animals resembled recipient blastocysts in phenotype color but were chimaeric in functional germ lines.