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RandyRemington
at Sat Feb 4 08:28:05 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
The albino het with a spider parent and spider tendencies without being an outright spider is interesting. I wouldn't expect being het for albino would have any contribution to looking spider like or not but who knows. Also, if it didn't get the spider gene it may be just co-incidence that it has spider like tendencies and had a spider parent. It's also possible that selective breeding in spider lines has concentrated non-spider reduced pattern genes in those lines (whether a non-spider allele of the gene at the spider locus or reduced pattern genes at other loci).
However, the piebald het reference brings up another interesting idea. If hets for some "recessive" mutations can sometimes show co-dominant like tendencies (where sporadically the hets are visible do to the single recessive gene sometimes “bleeding through”) could heterozygous animals for some dominant type mutations have sporadic recessive tendencies? Could genetic pastels or spiders (i.e. animals heterozygous for those genes who would normally be a visible morph) sometimes end up looking almost normal? How strong are the spider tendencies in that het albino? Since it’s a female I assume you will breed it eventually. If you end up not breeding it to a spider please let us know if it surprises you and throws spiders.
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RE: What I've noticed... - RandyRemington, Sat Feb 4 08:28:05 2006