I was at a show this weekend and was discussing morphs with a customer. When I indicated many morphs came from inbreeding I was referring to morphs like albino which is recessive and require some level of inbreeding to get two copies of the mutant gene into one animal.



He agreed but had a differing viewpoint. His opinion was that inbreeding was leading to the "breakdown of the normal gene into a mutated gene" .



While I did not agree with that point I did not argue either. I figured this would be the place to discuss.



So, does inbreeding actually mutate genes or does it rapidly propogate a previously existing mutated gene(s)?



imho, it propogates the gene and through selective breeding two copies of a relatively rare mutant gene are combined into one animal and are then expressed.
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Thanks,



Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC)

0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:

12.24 BRB

11.13 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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