“…Recent research supports the hypothesis that sex-specific effects in white matter regions exist in models of FASD. For instance, studies have demonstrated sex-specific effects of EtOH on spatial and motor learning (Goodlett & Peterson, 1995;Reekes et al, 2016), a oligodendrogenesis-dependent task (Xiao et al, 2016), and sex-specific deficits in eye movement have been detected in FASD subjects (Paolozza, Munn, Munoz, & Reynolds, 2015), potentially resulting from optic nerve hypoplasia following developmental EtOH exposure, characterized by abnormal myelin integrity (Parson, Dhillon, Findlater, & Kaufman, 1995;Pinazo-Duran, Renau-Piqueras, Guerri, & Str€ omland, 1997). Although beyond the scope of this investigation, it will be important in future studies to determine the impact of sex as a biological variable in our mouse model,…”