The Clinical Measurement Ontology (CMO), Measurement Methods Ontology (MMO), and Experimental Condition Ontology (XCO) are currently being developed at the Rat Genome Database. For more information about these vocabularies please see Shimoyama et al. Three ontologies to define phenotype measurement data. Front Genet. 2012;3:87. Epub 2012 May 28 or contact us (http://rgd.mcw.edu/contact/index.shtml).
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number of degenerate embryos per superovulation/artificial insemination event
The number of embryos produced in the process of a single round of superovulation and artificial insemination that have degenerated and are not likely to be viable or to produce offspring if transfered to a recipient.