Autosomal recessive myotonia congenita in sheep.docVIP

in sheep 2 Sponenberg 4 RM Dyer DP Department of Large Animal Clinical Sciences; Department of Small Animal Clinical Sciences; Department 1 2 3 4 of Veterinary Medicine, Virginia Polytechnic Summary - Myotonia congenita in sheep causes episodes of muscular rigor following various stimuli. Episodes are transitory and do not harm the animal. Incidence in the flock of origin included three ewe lambs and three ram lambs. Two of the affected animals resulted from the mating of one specific unaffected ram to the unaffected daughters of a second unaffected ram. This mating produced 25 normal a