A backcross method to prevent prenatal death of steel mutant mice.
Homozygous Sl/Sl mice survive until adulthood when obtained from matings between WC/Re-Sl/+ and (WC/Re X Swiss:NIH) F1-Sl/+ or WC/Re-Sl/+ and (WC/Re X AKR/Cum) F1-Sl/+ mice. They possess the classical hematological abnormalities produced by mutations at the Sl locus.
D000818:Animals; D003433:Crosses, Genetic; D005260:Female; D005313:Fetal Death / Q000662:veterinary*; D005804:Genes, Lethal; D051379:Mice; D008817:Mice, Mutant Strains / Q000235:genetics*; D011247:Pregnancy