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Polledness and intersexuality in the Damascus breed of goat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2010

John Hancock  and
Avraam Louca
John Hancock
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
Avraam Louca
Affiliation:
Agricultural Research Institute, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Summary

Data on 2208 parturitions involving 3594 kids were used to study the inheritance of polledness and its relationship with intersexuality in the Damascus breed of goat.

The percentage of horned kids in the offspring of polled × polled and horned × horned matings was 26·8 and 100·0, respectively. The corresponding value for matings having one parent horned was 50·3%.

There was a consistent excess of males in the sex ratios. Males comprised 53·8, 52·4, 60·2 and 54·0% of the offspring of polled x polled, polled x horned, horned x polled and horned × horned matings respectively. The corresponding proportions for the intersexes were 6·2, 0·3, 0·0 and 0·0%. The incidence of intersexes was not affected by type of birth (single, twin or multiple) or sex of littermates.

It was concluded that the data from the Damascus breed of goat conform with the current theory on the behaviour of the P gene concerning polledness (direct dominant effect) and intersexuality (pleiotropic recessive effect) in the Swiss breeds of goat.

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Research Article
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Animal Production , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , December 1975 , pp. 227 - 231
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Science 1975

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