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DURING experiments to produce extra-uterine pregnancies in mice, eggs were transplanted beneath the kidney capsule. Only one egg was transplanted under any one kidney capsule in each experiment. The eggs used were 1-, 2- and 4-cell stages, morulæ and blastocysts.
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KIRBY, D. Development of Mouse Eggs beneath the Kidney Capsule. Nature 187, 707–708 (1960). https://doi.org/10.1038/187707a0
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