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Jlassiter
at Fri Aug 28 12:29:14 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jlassiter ]
I did notice that all of those lacked the black Ruthie heads....But...with some work that, too can be outcrossed.....as I stated earlier there is certainly a possibility they are pure thayeri, since there are so many aberrant leonis thayeri hatching...Why not MSPs...And I just remembered Mike Bodner's when I read your post...I forgot you had it....He had another MSP with some white circle nuchals...first couple bands joining....
That light stripe is a nuchal remnant that is a Thayeri trait (as well as mexmex & greeri) not Ruthveni...It is the ground color usually...But with aberrancies anything is possible when certain alleles align on the DNA sequence....
And the red on thayeri is usually more bright than that of Ruthveni....Ruthies usually have a muted but bold red, especially the females...Females speckle more too...There is some dimorphism happening there.
I used to have some of Justin Mitcham's striped ruthveni...The red pigment in the striping was broken by some ground color saturation.....
I think this is a great topic for this forum.....I wonder why more aren't chiming in since alot of folks on here know (or claim to know) their Mexicana pretty well....
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John Lassiter
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RE: Aberrant MSP... can somebody explain? - Jlassiter, Fri Aug 28 12:29:14 2009