mortality/aging
• Background Sensitivity: fewer homozygotes than expected are recovered after one or two backcrosses to FBV/N whereas normal numbers of homozygotes are obtained from heterozygous crosses between parents in the C57BL/6 and 129/Sv backgrounds (F1) or after one or two backcrosses to C57BL/6
• however, surviving homozygotes are viable, fertile, and phenotypically indistinguishable from heterozygous and wild-type littermates in terms of gross anatomy, histology, and behavior up to 20 months of age
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