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dustyrhoads
at Fri Feb 6 19:14:21 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dustyrhoads ]
I've been to Ric's and saw the adults that sired them, and I've handled and looked at all the babies he had. The male parent looked almost exactly like this animal, which is why I picked this male:

By all accounts -- though unique and pretty -- a very normal alterna phase.
The female Het parent looked normal too, by all accounts. Other-than-recessive (e.g. dominant, codominant) mutations usually have a visual heterozygote.
Some of the alterna phase, like yours, had reduced amounts of orange but it was still present. There was a positive distinction between those and the anerys. (Ric, could you post a pic of one of your Anery alterna phase?)
I know of no true-breeding Anerys or Axanthics of any herp species that is anything other than simple recessive. Again, any genetics textbook tells you that lack-of-function alleles are hardly ever anything but recessive. It only takes one functional allele to synthesize the xanthophores and 'erythrophores'. We've haven't seen any 'partial Anery' Blair's phase yet out of this...just one or the other.
Dusty
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- Please post Anery and Hypo pics - tortoiseguy65, Thu Feb 5 11:01:54 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - MikeRusso, Thu Feb 5 11:28:06 2009

- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - MikeRusso, Thu Feb 5 11:29:41 2009

- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - MikeRusso, Thu Feb 5 11:32:04 2009

- Anery 277 - swwit, Thu Feb 5 12:45:53 2009

- 277 Anery #2 - swwit, Thu Feb 5 12:51:38 2009

- Anery Blairs -- Sanderson locale - dustyrhoads, Thu Feb 5 15:47:01 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - Jon R, Thu Feb 5 23:37:39 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - MikeRusso, Fri Feb 6 07:43:46 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - dustyrhoads, Fri Feb 6 16:01:02 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - swwit, Fri Feb 6 16:34:27 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - Jon R, Fri Feb 6 18:11:51 2009
RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - dustyrhoads, Fri Feb 6 19:14:21 2009
- Het's - MikeRusso, Fri Feb 6 19:45:12 2009

- RE: Het's - Jon R, Fri Feb 6 22:27:45 2009
- RE: Het's - dustyrhoads, Fri Feb 6 22:36:45 2009
- RE: Het's - Jon R, Fri Feb 6 22:57:18 2009
- RE: Het's - dustyrhoads, Fri Feb 6 23:28:21 2009
- RE: Het's - Joe Forks, Mon Feb 9 07:19:42 2009
- RE: Het's - MikeRusso, Sat Feb 7 11:08:39 2009
- RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - chuckster, Fri Feb 6 22:05:59 2009

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