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Digynic triploidy in rabbit blastocysts after delayed insemination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

R. A. Beatty  and
V. J. Coulter
R. A. Beatty
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Unit of Animal Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
V. J. Coulter
Affiliation:
A.R.C. Unit of Animal Genetics, Department of Genetics, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JN
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The origin of triploid (3N) 5½-day blastocysts in rabbits is inferred from the segregation of sex chromosomes and of an autosomal M-marker whose properties are described. 39 triploids and no tetraploids were scored among 1454 chromosomally scored blastocysts. A delay of 8 h between an ovulatory injection and subsequent insemination raised the estimated normal incidence of 0·59% triploid blastocysts to 3·13%. The increase is ascribed primarily to digyny (17 blastocysts), and to diandry probably mediated by dispermy (1 blastocyst). The triploid components of the two 2N/3N mosaics and the one 3N/6N were digynic. Neither superovulation nor insemination of excessive numbers of spermatozoa could be shown to give rise to triploid embryos. The diandric triploid was X Y Y, the first of this constitution apparently reported in the rabbit. There was some evidence that X X Y triploid blastocysts up to 5½-day gestation are more viable than X X X. In the 2N/3N mosaics each component had been entered by one spermatozoon, and the dliploid component could not have been merely a contamination by dliploid maternal somatic cells. In 2N/4N, 2N/4N/8N and 3N/6N mosaics, each polyploid component showed an exact doubling of the marker chromosome constitution of a component of lower ploidy; their origin is ascribed to doubling or redoubling of chromosome number in isolated embryonic cells. With earlier data included, 49·08 (± s.e. 1·96)% of 652 diploid blastocysts were X Y. 460 non-experimental weaned rabbits were all cliploid.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 32 , Issue 1 , August 1978 , pp. 9 - 18
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1978

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