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Pigs born without eyeballs.

J. Hered., 24, 105-06.. 1933.

Hale demonstrated that pregnant pigs fed a diet deficient in vitamin A gave birth to piglets with a variety of malformations, predominantly a lack of eyes. See also: Hale, F., 'The relation of vitamin A to anophthalmos in pigs,: Am J Opthalmol. 18 (1935) 1087–1093.

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