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snakehorse
at Mon Sep 11 17:00:06 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by snakehorse ]
so, the hypo/salmon gene is just "dominant"!? If it was a simple dominant then an animal would either be hypo/salmon, or not. And it would either pass it on, or not. There would be no such thing as a "super salmon" with extra markers (more reduced pattern) than a regular salmon. An animal that is hypo/salmon WILL show it. Cannot hide. that makes it appear to be a "dominant" trait. But in reality, it is more like a co-dominant... Genetic inheritance of co-dominant genes works in essentially the same manner as genetic inheritance in simple recessive genes, except for the fact that heterozygous animals are visibly different than normals. These visible "hets" can be bred together to produce an even more extreme variation of the mutation, often called a "Super." The "Super" is a dominant form of a co-dominant gene, and can be bred to a normal animal to produce entire clutches of the visible het, or co-dominant form. Examples of co-dominant traits are arabesque, hypomelanistic, salmon, jungle, motley, and pastel.
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RE: okay... now I'm really confused - snakehorse, Mon Sep 11 17:00:06 2006