Lack of coupling between onset of giant transformation and genome endoreduplication in the mural trophectoderm of the mouse blastocyst.

Prominent among the various types of cell that differentiate from the trophectoderm of the mouse blastocyst are trophoblastic giant cells. Repeated endoreduplication of the genome accompanies the growth of these cells, which have been shown to be polytene rather than polyploid. Early stages in giant...