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Posted by: Mahlon at Fri Jun 9 13:11:18 2006   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Mahlon ]  
   

What you have would be called a paradox by most. Paradox animals are most likely the result of either A) Mosaicism or B) Chimeraism.

A genetic Mosaic is usually the result of a local reversion to a normal state.

A Chimera on the other hand is the result of fused embryos usually, and is much more rare. But just imagine if you had a Homozygous Ghost embryo and a Normal embryo that conglomerated into one embryo. Some parts of the animal would be ghost, and some would be normal, and voila, you have a paradox animal.

Hope this helps, and if you have any more questions feel free to ask.

-Dan

   

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