The developmental capacity of embryos produced using cryopreserved sperm was compared to that of cryopreserved IVF-derived embryos to illustrate the relative efficiency of different methods available for archiving GM mouse lines.
Previous studies have shown that age is at best a proxy for developmental capacity [ 8– 10] and other key determining factors are highlighted.
After warming, the oocytes from the five experimental groups were assessed for survival, spontaneous parthenogenetic activation and developmental capacity via in vitro fertilization.
It is recognized that age is, at best, a proxy for developmental capacity, and that experience, maturity and psychological state are key determining factors.
The identification of the embryo with the greatest developmental capacity represents a major challenge for fertility clinics.
"Developing oral language skills or ensuring academic targets reflect developmental capacity could substantially reduce the numbers of children requiring specialist clinical services in later years," the researchers conclude.
By definition, being a reproducer is a property applicable to systems that have developmental capacities.
Large individual differences in developmental pathways and developmental capacities are characteristic of adolescence (Oetzel and Scherer 2003).
These show some capacity for developmental effects but only at very high doses (Nieuwenhuijsen et al. 2000a).
In the language of CNE, the initial capacity for developmental unscrambling— presumed in an ancestor prior to the first scrambled gene— is called an "excess capacity", meaning a capacity that could be removed (in principle) without compromising fitness.
Previous applications of cellular automata to architectural design have oftentimes been characterised by their limited generative capacity for top down developmental control and for pragmatic rule-breaking as they are easily offered by human designers.
