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Life Sciences => Cells, Microbes & Viruses => Topic started by: thedoc on 07/06/2012 14:15:31

Title: Gene of the month - Callipyge (aka beautiful buttocks)
Post by: thedoc on 07/06/2012 14:15:31

Move over Kim Kardashian, because our gene of the month is the curvaceous Callipyge, Greek for “beautiful buttocks”. It was first spotted back in the early 1980s on a farm in Oklahoma, when the farmer noticed some sheep in his flock with particularly big, muscular bottoms.
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