A Globosus amorphus from an in vitro fertilized embryo transferred to a Japanese black cow

A Globosus amorphus along with a living calf was encountered following the transfer of blastocysts obtained by in vitro fertilization of in vitro-matured follicular oocytes in Japanese black cattle. Two embryos obtained 9 days after in vitro fertilization developed into either a hatched blastocyst with distinct inner cell mass or an expanded blastocyst with indistinct inner cell mass. The embryos were loaded into a 0.25-ml plastic straw and were nonsurgically transferred to the uterus of a heifer on Day 8 (Day 0 = estrus). On Day 75, a twin pregnancy was ultrasonically diagnosed in the right uterine horn, in which a live fetus with distinct limbs and a concomitant ovoid mass were detected. On Day 287, the dam developed parturient paralysis with dropsy of the fetal membranes. By palpation per rectum an ovoid mass was detected in the body of the uterus [corpus uteri] and a larger live fetus was in the uterine horn. A cesarean section was performed to extract a live fetus and a Globosus amorphus. The live fetus was female with the 60, XX female complements.