• the abducens nerve has fewer hindbrain exiting bundles (30% reduction) that are over-fasciculated in the hindbrain and stalled with variable penetrance midway between the hindbrain and orbit at E11.5
• stalled abducens nerve bundles do not reach the orbit, resulting in secondary aberrant
misinnervation of the lateral rectus muscle by the oculomotor nerve
• E11.5 embryos show errors in trochlear nerve projections; trochlear axons cross the midline and exit dorsally as in wild-type embryos, but the axons form multiple fascicles instead of one nerve bundle, most of which extend appropriately toward the contralateral orbit, but some turn back and misproject toward the ipsilateral orbit
• in E11.5 embryos, the first cervical spine nerve exits the brainstem appropriately, but turns dorsally toward the dermomyotome with variable bilateral penetrance