Hopefully they can keep track of some of the female offspring and see how they breed. Maybe bred to dad they could produce the expected 50% males but all would be like dad and only produce females with other lines (going on the theory that he is homozygous for a version of Z that isn't compatible with other versions). If that where the case even when the females are bred to "normal" males they would only produce females, it just would take longer to get the kind of statistical evidence that it wasn't just a fluke compared to breeding a male to several females in one year and producing only females.

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• 0.16 ----What are the odds? - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 12:45:59 2006
• Technically speaking..... - JP, Mon Aug 28 12:52:44 2006
• RE: Technically speaking..... - cid143ti, Mon Aug 28 13:12:40 2006
• RE: Technically speaking..... - toshamc, Mon Aug 28 13:25:08 2006
• It's the male...np - bpconnection, Mon Aug 28 15:24:57 2006
• Pretty sure it's the female - RandyRemington, Tue Aug 29 00:43:54 2006
• Randy...another possibility - rwoodyer, Tue Aug 29 13:03:29 2006
• Lots of possibilities - RandyRemington, Tue Aug 29 19:25:08 2006
• Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm...... - jeff favelle, Mon Aug 28 19:01:25 2006
• RE: 0.16 ----What are the odds? - dwherp, Mon Aug 28 13:45:58 2006
• that is what I was hoping.... - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 15:00:36 2006
• RE: that is what I was hoping.... - Herpout, Mon Aug 28 20:37:38 2006
• temps during incubation.... - tomsiegrist, Mon Aug 28 23:17:01 2006