I'm just guessing Jeff, but perhaps the mutation didn't occur in the individual sperm or egg that produced the first scoria, but perhaps in the gonads of the parent animal, such that some additional eggs and sperm may have it. Maybe somewhere in the father's seminiferous tubules there was a mutation such that a small percent of that boas sperm will contain the mutation. That male might sire scorias in a small percent of each litter he throws. I'd be interested to breed the father of the original scoria to more females. Mark

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