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Zigzag: a genetic defect of the horizontal canals in the mouse
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 April 2009
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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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