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The callipyge phenomenon: evidence for unusual genetic inheritance.

Journal of animal science - 1 Jan 1999

Cockett N E, Jackson S P, Snowder G D, Shay T L, Berghmans S, Beever J E, Carpenter C, Georges M

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In 1983, a male lamb exhibiting a pronounced muscular hypertrophy, particularly noticeable in the hind quarters, was born into a commercial Dorset flock in Oklahoma. The ram was premonitorily called Solid Gold. He subsequently produced offspring expressing the unusual phenotype, which is referred to as callipyge (Greek: calli- beautiful + -pyge buttocks). Animals demonstrating the callipyge phenotype are all...

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PMID: 15526799
DOI: 10.2527/1999.77suppl_2221x

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