Ocular motor abnormalities in achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs: unyoked eye movements in a mammal.

doi:10.1016/0042-6989(94)e0045-m

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Ocular motor abnormalities in achiasmatic mutant Belgian sheepdogs: unyoked eye movements in a mammal.

Vision research - 1 Jan 1995

Dell'Osso L F, Williams R W

Abstract excerpt

We studied the eye movements of several members of a family of Belgian sheepdogs that includes achiasmatic mutants. Our aim was to identify the types of nystagmus and other ocular motor abnormalities exhibited by the mutants. We also recorded from several unaffected heterozygous carriers of the g...

Topics

Animals
Disease Models, Animal
Dogs
Eye Movements
Female
Male
Mutation
Nystagmus, Pathologic
Optic Chiasm
Saccades
Time Factors

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