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Posted by: TopNotchBoas at Thu Oct 9 10:21:57 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by TopNotchBoas ]  
   

1. We havent seen any evidence of a "super" jungle or a "super" motley producing yet?

2. We havent seen any evidence of a "super" arabesque producing yet? (let alone a distinctive "super" phenotype)

I realize the arabesque issue is more puzzling because, obviously, there has been ample time to prove supposed "super" versions out.

However - I do think there has been ample time to have seen super jungles producing. Just looking through Pete Kahl's litter producing and available boas at his site will tell you he has a ton of jungles. So why has he not successfully produced from a super (according to him)? It's puzzling ... I think there are two primary possibilities:
- He just hasnt been able to get a super to produce
- He has gotten them to produce but they didnt produce all jungles

If he hasnt gotten a super to produce then we can't rule out the possibility of them being sterile. Hopefully it would just be an issue to be solved through outcrossing.

If he has gotten them to produce and they didnt produce all jungles like we all think/hope they will... then it would be a huge hit to the morph. The question of whether or not jungles are a single gene mutation will be much more debatable. The value of the morph would likely diminish. So there would certainly be some incentive for Pete to keep that information under wraps.

I hope that the reason we havent seen the supers produce yet is just a legitimate lack of breeding trials... and at this point I'm not going to jump to any conclusions to the contrary. If, however, we go another breeding season or two still not knowing the function of these supers... I may start to think otherwise.

   

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