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Zigzag: a genetic defect of the horizontal canals in the mouse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 April 2009

Mary F. Lyon
Mary F. Lyon
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Radiobiological Research Unit, Harwell, Berkshire, England
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The name zigzag has been given to an inherited behaviour defect in the mouse in which the animals walk with a zigzag motion. It is inherited polygenically. The anatomical defect responsible for the abnormal behaviour was a reduction or absence of the horizontal canals of the inner ear, the reduction consisting of a constriction in the middle of the canal length, rather than a shortening of the canal.

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Research Article
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Genetics Research , Volume 1 , Issue 2 , July 1960 , pp. 189 - 195
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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