Certain strains of mice, such as C3H, exhibit a recessively inherited retinal dystrophy. This takes the form of a degeneration and complete disappearance of the visual cell layer; it begins on or about the 11th day of life and is nearly complete by the 19th day (Sorsby, Koller, Attfield, Davey, & Lucas, 1954). The process is remarkably uniform from litter to litter (Lucas & Newhouse, 1957).

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