I'm aware of several different morphs that are essentially het for the blue eyed lucy. Mojaves, fires and lesser plats are the ones I know of.
Further, from what I understand, each of those traits breeds true--you get mojaves (and lucys) from a mojaveXmojave. You can also, however, breed any combination of those three morphs, and get blue eyed lucys. But, you don't get fires from Mojaves, or vice versa, or plats from Mojaves, etc.

How does that work on a genetic level? I'm under the impression each of the three heterozygous traits are codom, and when bred to any of the other codoms, can express as blue eyed lucys (which are effectively then het for two different traits). But seems very abnormal, just from my limited experience with genetics. I'm not asking this for breeding advice, it's just academic. This family of traits must have some common genetic tie in it would seem, but just how does it work? Is it the way each trait interrupts the normal coloration? i.e. with one allele from a mojave, and one from a plat, is there just no genetic information to give it normal colors? But then why does the trait show as a lucy rather than some blending of the colors of the two morphs?

Thanks for any clarification and sorry if my post is confusing, but frankly I'm confused!

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• Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - varanid, Sun Mar 1 23:00:16 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - Bolitochrome, Mon Mar 2 12:45:33 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - Paul Hollander, Mon Mar 2 18:00:37 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - Paul Hollander, Mon Mar 2 18:12:06 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - varanid, Mon Mar 2 20:31:20 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - RandyRemington, Sun Mar 22 11:46:00 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - mshimmyb, Thu Apr 2 20:53:29 2009
• RE: Genetics of the blue eyed lucy - Paul Hollander, Fri Apr 3 18:31:01 2009
• thanks!! np - mshimmyb, Fri Apr 3 20:23:22 2009