>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.

Paul Hollander

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• What happens when you breed?? - EvoMorphs, Mon May 28 08:40:48 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - Scram, Mon May 28 09:07:49 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - EvoMorphs, Mon May 28 09:59:42 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - Randall_Turner, Mon May 28 10:25:06 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - rainbowsrus, Mon May 28 12:06:22 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - Randall_Turner, Mon May 28 13:10:32 2007
• RE: What happens when you breed?? - mpollard, Mon May 28 16:37:20 2007
• I think..... - NUCCIZ_BOAS, Mon May 28 17:40:28 2007
• RE: I think..... - ChrisGilbert, Tue May 29 22:49:13 2007
• Interesting hypothesis but - RyanHomsey, Mon May 28 21:26:45 2007
• RE: Interesting hypothesis but - Randall_Turner, Mon May 28 21:34:35 2007
• RE: Interesting hypothesis but - Paul Hollander, Tue May 29 12:41:40 2007