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RE: Interesting hypothesis but

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Posted by: Paul Hollander at Tue May 29 12:41:40 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]  
   

>Sperm fertilizes an egg, both cells carry the fatal gene and the zygote, or embryo or what ever stage it reaches stops development.



This would still produce a slug or dead embryo. Which would depend on how early the embryo dies. Do arabesque x arabesque produce a higher number of slugs/dead embryos than might be expected? That's the next question to ask. If the answer to that question is no, then the most likely explanation is that arabesque is just a Mendelian dominant mutant gene, and nobody has done the breeding tests needed to find a homozygous arabesque.



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