A Closer Look (VIDEO)

Virginia Tech

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By video-tracking eye movements in the larval zebrafish, the scientists found that fish with dscaml1 mutations (right) have a host of eye movement deficits, including rapid fatigue, impaired visual fixation, and inability to perform a type of fast, ballistic eye movement called saccade.

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