Article
Spasmodic, a mutation on chromosome 11 in the mouse.
The Journal of heredity - 1 Jan 2000
Lane P W, Ganser A L, Kerner A L, White W F
Abstract excerpt
A new recessive mutation, spasmodic (spd), producing behavior that mimics that of the neurological mutation spastic (spa) with rapid tremors, stiff posture, and difficulty in righting, arose spontaneously in strain A/HeJ at the Jackson Laboratory in 1979. It is not an allele of spa and linkage te...
Topics
- Aminooxyacetic Acid
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Chromosomes
- Female
- Genes, Recessive
- Glycine
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Neurologic Mutants
- Mutation
- Myelin Proteins