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anthony james mc
at Thu Mar 26 11:45:53 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by anthony james mc ]
Really no need to breed him to a normal,any non Lesser complex morph should also give you a breakdown of the gene(s) involved, if anything comes out with Mojave appearance then you'd have your answer. I just doubt that will be the case , only way you'd get any Mojave in his babies would be if the Crystal gene is not an Allele of the lesser complex which I doubt is the case. I say this as Crystal Mojaves have been bred out already and from what I understand over 35 eggs have been hatched out with NO Crystal Mojaves being produced (the females were NON Lesser complex animals or normals) that tells us that it likely IS an allele situation and that the ONLY way to make more Crystal Mojaves/Lessers etc is by breeding the Crystal gene or Crystal combo morph BACK to another parent that is or carries in the form of a combo the Mojave , Lesser, Phantom/Mystic, actually in theory ANY of the genes in the Lesser complex in other words should line up with the Crystal gene. Based on the breedings in 08 I think it's most likely that this Super Crystal is the pure Super form of the Crystal side without any Mojave in it. Another less likely possibility is that the Crystal Mojave is a crossover situation and in that case if I'm not mistaken it is possible that the Super Crystal in a crossover situation could then also have one copy of Mojave in it (mom isn't a Mojave but is the "Special" or Crystal gene so this Super Crystal could at best only have 1 copy of Mojave) as in the crossover situation they aren't true alleles of each other but VERY close Alleles that crossover into each others chromosomes during cellular division or basically something like that anyway. From what I understand if a crossover happens it's real hard to unlock the genes simultaneously so they combine together again and make in this case another Crystal Mojave. It in fact can be done since they aren't true alleles in the case of crossing over but it's not easy and you mainly produce offspring with one or the other gene (Crystal/aka Special or Mojave in the case of a Crystal Mojave) and rarely would it hit on a Crystal Mojave when bred to a normal or non lesser complex parent. If a Crystal Mojave is EVER made by breeding a Crystal Mojave to a virgin non Lesser complex morph then it would prove a crossover is what we are dealing with and that they aren't true alleles of each other , SO FAR however no evidence has supported this idea .
Another way to look at this is if the Special gene or better called the Crystal gene (for easy naming down the road of the future combos, afterall the Special gene is a morph all on its own, so Crystal is the best name for the base morph too) and the Mojave or other Lesser complex genes were seperate Alleles from the Crystal gene one would expect a Crystal Mojave to reproduce itself just like a Lemon Blast, Bumblebee, or Pewter does , 1 in every 4 offspring in theory would carry both genes even bred to a normal and visually it would then be a combo morph , so far this has not happened with breeding Crystal Mojaves to normals or non lesser complex morphs. I keep saying "non lesser complex morphs" as that is the ONLY surefire way to make Crystal Mojaves/Crystal Lessers because anytime the other Lesser complex parent throws a copy of it's morph or in other words does not throw a copy of normal then you would either make a Super Mojave (or regular Blue Eyed Leucistic depending on what your breeding with such as a Lesser/Mojave BEL produced from a Crystal Mojave x Lesser breeding) or if the Crystal gene lines up instead with that Mojave , Lesser, Mystic, or whichever one your using you can make a Crystal Mojave, Crystal Lesser, Crystal Mystic and so on this way depending on which Lesser complex morph you bred the Crystal morph into.
I think this year will prove all this out enough that it will make perfect sence to those that are following the project. By this fall I should know what I have as far as this Super Crystal goes , if I don't do it here someone else in the project will shed enough evidence on the matter so we know more of how it breeds out.
Anthony McCain
McCain Reptiles
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RE: took a few pics of some morphs today - anthony james mc, Thu Mar 26 11:45:53 2009