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flavor
at Thu Oct 11 20:33:16 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by flavor ]
Maybe. No one has been working with this gene long enough to be an expert but I think the term anery should stick for now. Here's why;
I've seen several adult and juvie anerys and none of them were red. In fact, all have been distinctly different from any "normal" brazilian I've seen. True, the adults I've seen were brown. But, melanin is brown. Highly concentrated patches of melanin appear black. I think it's still safe to say that anery BRBs do not appear to be producing erythrin.
Just like normal BRBs, anerys tend to accumulate more melanin in their scales as they mature. This is why they're turning brown.
A lot of this will be proven over the next several years and I might possibly be singing a different tune. For now though, I think "anery" is appropriate and not misleading. ----- Mike Lockwood
www.tooscaley.com
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