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In a celebrated paper [in: Séminaire de probabilités. Lect. Notes Math. 1123, 177-206 (1985; Zbl 0561.60080)], \textit{D. Bakry} and \textit{M. Emery} introduced a criterion involving the squared-field operator and its iteration to obtain Gross' hypercontractivity property for the related Markovian semigroup (the ``Gamma 2 criterion''). They discussed a wide class of examples including, for \(n\geq 1/4\), the so-called ultraspherical semigroups (whose generator is given by \((1-x^2)f''(x) - nxf(x)\) on the set of \(C^2\) functions over \([-1,1]\)). The purpose of this note is to retrieve the above example, again for \(n\geq 1/4\), following a recent approach of \textit{M. Ledoux} [J. Funct. Anal. 105, No.~2, 444-465 (1992; Zbl 0759.60079)]: using the weaker integral Gamma 2 criterion (also introduced by Bakry and Emery), and a commutation relation between the generator and the derivative. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0924.00016].