The shaker (Sh) gene when mutated causes a variety of atypical behaviors in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Under ether anesthesia the fly’s legs will shake (hence the name); even when the fly is unanaesthetized it will exhibit aberrant movements.
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