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dustyrhoads
at Tue Oct 6 02:25:09 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dustyrhoads ]
So, now they're called Mercury? Why change the name? You, Chris Flowers, Shannon Brown, Ric Blair, and others have been calling them (and even SELLING them as) Black Gap Silvers for as long as they've been proven genetic.
There is a lot of evidence that they're the same genetically as the other line of Silvers (Dave Hewitt and Mark Bell lines are the same genetically).
First, they're proven recessive just like the other line.
They originate only a few miles from where the other line originated.
And lastly, they are the same morph, visually.
Yeah, there's a slight chance that they could be different alleles causing the same mutation (axanthism), but I'd invoke the law of parsimony on this one -- that the simplest explanation is the best and most likely until proven otherwise.
Dusty
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