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Journal of Neuroscience, Vol 11, 1524-1530, Copyright © 1991 by Society for Neuroscience

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Wocko, a neurological mutant generated in a transgenic mouse pedigree

EB Crenshaw 3d, A Ryan, SR Dillon, K Kalla and MG Rosenfeld
Department of Biology, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla 92093-0648.

Naturally occurring mutations involving the nervous system have provided virtually all of our current understanding of the genetic regulation of neural development (Caviness and Rakic, 1978). The difficulty of isolating the corresponding genes, however, has precluded a molecular analysis of these mutants. Insertional mutagenesis, induced by microinjection of DNA into fertilized ova to produce transgenic animals, provides a molecular tag that marks the site of the mutational event. In this article, we describe a transgenic neurological mutation, designated wocko (Wo), which disrupts the development of the inner ear. These mutant mice display a dominant behavioral phenotype that consists of circling, hyperactivity, and head tossing, reminiscent of the shaker/waltzer class of mutants, and they display a recessive homozygous sublethal phenotype. Anatomical analyses showed that both structural and neural components of the vestibular system were disrupted, while analyses of mutant fetuses showed that these morphological abnormalities were due to aberrant development. Although low levels of transgene expression were detected using a sensitive PCR assay, several nonmutant pedigrees that contain the same construct also expressed the transgene in the inner ear, suggesting that low levels of transgene expression alone were not responsible for the wocko phenotype. Because the integrated transgene provides a marker to clone the wocko mutation, the analysis of this mutant will give unique insight into the molecular genetics of inner ear development and into a broad class of neurological mutations that affect the inner ear.

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