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CYTOGENETICAL STUDIES OF INFERTILE PIGS
Author(s) -
Potter W. L.,
Cooper J. W.,
Blackshaw A. W.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
australian veterinary journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.382
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1751-0813
pISSN - 0005-0423
DOI - 10.1111/j.1751-0813.1980.tb05649.x
Subject(s) - karyotype , biology , bone marrow , boar , chromosome , peripheral blood , kidney , andrology , physiology , pathology , endocrinology , immunology , genetics , medicine , semen , gene
Cytogenetical studies were made on 6 infertile pigs. Post‐mortem examination of the reproductive organs of 5 of these pigs showed them to be intersexes. Regardless of the degree of gonadal deviation from the normal, chromosome karyotype of cultured peripheral blood lymphocytes, bone marrow, liver and kidney, revealed that 4 of the intersexes had a 38, XX constitution. One intersex exhibited sex chromosome mosaicism (38XX/38XY) in lymphocytes from the peripheral blood and bone marrow and a normal male karyotype (38XY) in cultured liver and kidney cells. The sixth pig, a phenotypically normal boar, also had a 38XX/38XY chromosome constitution.