Interspecies Approaches for the Analysis of Parental Imprinting During Mouse Development

From the Laboratory of Radioblology and Environmental Health and Department of Anatomy (Villar) and the Reproductive Genetics Division, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California (Villar and Pedersen). Address correspondence to A. J. Villar, Porter Beach Foundation, 2269 Chestnut Street, #876, San Francisco, CA 94123. This work was supported by NIH Program Project Grant HD26732 and by the OfBce of Health and Environmental Research, US. Department of Energy (contract DE-AC03-76-SF01012). AJ.V. Is supported by a HltchJngs-Ellon Fellowship. We thank Fay Shamansld, Tom Moore, and Wolf Relk for critically reading the manuscript. This paper was delivered at a symposium entitled "Interspecies Hybrids In Mammals" In association with the New Zealand Genetlcal Society and Australasian Gene Mapping Workshop In Dunedln, New Zealand, from November 30-December 1, 1995.