behavior/neurological
• mutants have impaired ability to acquire eye blink conditioning especially for the first 3 days of training, with repeated training the difference between wild-type and mutants decreases
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• mutants have difficulty balancing on a narrow beam and do not improve with repeated trials
• however mutants have normal activity and anxiety levels, simple position discrimination, and swimming ability
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nervous system
• neurons are absent in the dorsal accessory nucleus and dorsal part of the principal nucleus of the inferior olive
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