behavior/neurological
hearing/vestibular/ear
• like mice homozygous for the original Jackson circler mutation, homozygous mutant mice respond to click and 32 kHz pure tone stimuli only at high sound pressure; homozygotes display better hearing at 8 and 16 kHz stimuli compared to C57BL/6J-jc/J homozygotes
• the hearing deficit of homozygous mutant mice is not progressive; their hearing threshold at 16 kHz remained stable at 40 dB over a 19-week testing period
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