Disproval of an apparent goat x sheep hybrid.
Samples of whole blood of a Boergoat buck (60,XY), and ewe (54,XX) and her heterosexual twins were cytogenetically examined. The female offspring had hair and seemed to be a cross between the two animals. However, both twins possessed 54 chromosomes, including 6 large submetacentric autosomes, whose R- and G-banding patterns were identical to those of the ewe.
D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D006041:Goats / Q000235:genetics*; D006801:Humans; D006824:Hybridization, Genetic; D007621:Karyotyping / Q000662:veterinary; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D012756:Sheep / Q000235:genetics*; D014427:Twins