"but collecting a het from the wild? Now that is some big number!"

"Not only is that a big number, how would it be calculated? What factors would be considered, and how would these factors be measured? To date, this is one known het out of ALL the annulata ever collected! "

You could figure out the probability, but would need a lot of data we will never get. For example, if you collected say a 1000 animals from the place where the het. was collected and then were able to DNA test them to find out which were hets you would get #hets/1000 = prob. of collecting one.

But like you said, you would never know if collected a het. unless you did the backcross. I think I'll be backcrossing all my animals, just to see

Vinny
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