During in vitro fertilization, human embryos are incubated without light, and these conditions do not ensure embryo survival. This study explored whether environmental conditions can influence the embryo viability rat...
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During in vitro fertilization, human embryos are incubated without light, and these conditions do not ensure embryo survival. This study explored whether environmental conditions can influence the embryo viability rates of the house cricket, Acheta domesticus. In particular, the experiment tested what colors of visible light provide the best incubation conditions to ensure cricket embryo viability. The concept was to use house cricket embryos to represent human embryos. Cricket embryos were chosen as their eggs have soft outer membrane casings and resemble human embryos during the first few days after fertilization. During the experiment, the adult crickets laid their eggs into one of six soil-filled boxes called substrates. Each substrate was placed into one of six storage containers filled with adult crickets and lit with a different colored visible light (red, yellow, green, blue, white, or no light). After two days of breeding, the egg-filled substrates were removed from the adult crickets and placed in another storage container of the same color light. After incubation under heat-emitting lamps and under one of six light colors, nymphs were counted after hatching to determine embryo viability. After three trials, the red light provided the significantly highest viability rate, with yellow and no light being comparable seconds. The green, blue, and white lights showed significantly lower viability rates than no visible light. My results raise the speculation that exposing fertilized mammal eggs to visible light colors might have the same effects during the in vitro fertilization process.
Autosomal reciprocal translocations represent exchanges of chromatin fragments between non-homologous *** are facilitated by the creation of quadrivalent structures during the first meiotic division,which are characte...
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Autosomal reciprocal translocations represent exchanges of chromatin fragments between non-homologous *** are facilitated by the creation of quadrivalent structures during the first meiotic division,which are characterized by the length of the translocated and centric segments,asymmetry,and the presence of terminal breakpoints,all of which may impact segregation ***,we report a rare case of multiple reciprocal translocations within a single *** includes the evaluation of the translocations in each of the spouses and an analysis of their chromosome segregation patterns as determined by the constellation of universal characteristics in each of their *** obtained results will be of interest to fundamental biology,as they will expand the understanding of the factors affecting chromosome segregation during meiosis.
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