Back in the early 90s, about when Rich was independently creating what he calls crimson, I was making what I called hypo Miami. I made mine just like he did. Hypo X Miami phase. Back then, we sometimes had the same confusing results we do today. I recall breeding some of my hypo together and either getting no hypos or both normals and hypos. Today, enough breeding of corns has transpired to indicate there are possibly more hypo genes in corns than we are evidently aware.



In the past few years, enough of my customers have reported to me that when they breed a SMR hypo Miami to a crimson or other variation of hypo, they don't get hypos. Either I originally used a pseudo-hypo (phenotypic hypo) that was actually not that way from recessive genetic forces OR mine was a different recessive hypo not allelic to the same hypo A Rich used. Regardless, since hypo is in the name and I haven't yet proven what hypo is at work in mine, I'm going to change the name of this morph. The banded motley examples will be called banded Miami motlies and the non motlies will be banded Miamis. I guess you could say that in typical Soderberg fashion, I'm attempting to reduce confusion by creating the different confusion of changing snakes in the middle of the pool. The gene pool. I just don't know what else to do in the absence of knowing why the patriarchs of this line were so hypo looking. Even if I discover it's not the same hypo gene, it will need a new name so in an effort to be as accurate as possible with the name, I'm eliminating the "hypo" part of the name.



Thanx for bringing this up. I am addressing the issue in my next book and this winter, I'm changing my web site to that effect.



Don

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