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Heritable susceptibility to environmentally induced glaucoma in several mutants of Japanese quail.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Lauber J K, Cheng K M
Abstract excerpt
We compared albino (aI), dilute (aID), and wild-type (AI+) quail in their ocular responses to continuous light, the rearing condition that brings on light-induced avian glaucoma (LIAG) in domestic chickens. At age 3 months, all quail kept under 24L/OD showed the retarded corneal growth and corneal flattening characteristic of LIAG. Unlike chickens, quail did not suffer pathological eye enlargement during the...
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