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A cytogenetic study of a barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) x domestic goat (Capra hircus) hybrid

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An account is given of stillborn male twins born to a female Saanen goat (Capra hircus) and a Barbary ram (Ammotragus lervia). The cytogenetics of the cultured hybrid cells are described and attention is drawn to the high proportion of cells which lacked one chromosome.

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  1. A.R.C. Institute of Animal Physiology, Babraham, CB2 4AT, Cambridge, England

    Anne R. Dain

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Acknowledgment. I. gratefully acknowledge the help of Mr G.E. Embleton who took the skin biopsy of the Barbary ram.

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Dain, A.R. A cytogenetic study of a barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia) x domestic goat (Capra hircus) hybrid. Experientia 36, 1358–1360 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01960096

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