The Effect of Mutation dominant spotting-Yurlovo ( Kit ^W-Y) on Spermatogenesis, Early Embryogenesis, and Fertility of C57BL/6JY Mice.

Kolomiets, O. L.; Kurilo, L. F.; Malashenko, A. M.; Sakharova, N. Yu.; Chebotareva, T. A.

The effect of mutation Kit W-Y found in C57BL/6 mice on fertility, spermatogenesis, and early embryogenesis of mice have been studied. If heterozygotes Kit W /+ are crossed with wild-type mice, fertility decreases by 20%. Homozygotes Kit W-Y /Kit W-Y and compounds Kit W-Y /Kit Ssm are nonviable. The study of spermatogenesis in Kit W /+ mice has demonstrated a negative effect of this mutation on spermatocytes. Histological examination of the testes of mutant males has shown local empty spaces in seminal ducts. Electron microscopic examination of synaptonemal complexes have demonstrated desynapsis disturbance in some nuclei at the diplotene stage of meiotic prophase I. However, these disturbances do not cause a decrease in the number of fertilized oocytes/ova. The decrease in fertility is accounted for disturbances of early embryogenesis. In vivo and in vitro analyses of early embryogenesis have demonstrated that cleavage divisions are asynchronous in Kit W-Y /+ heterozygous embryos. Some of these embryos die before implantation, and others cleave more rapidly than wild-type embryos, which give them selective advantage during the postimplantation period of embryogenesis. The pattern of Kit W-Y expression during spermatogenesis and embryogenesis mimics potential human pathology, which makes these mutants an interesting and valuable object for genetics and developmental biology.

SPERMATOGENESIS in animals; FERTILITY; GENETIC mutation; LABORATORY mice; HISTOLOGY; ELECTRON microscopy

Russian Journal of Genetics, 2005, Vol 41, Issue 10, p1130

1022-7954

Academic Journal

10.1007/s11177-005-0210-x