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prehistoricpets
at Tue Oct 6 15:11:18 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by prehistoricpets ]
happen this season.
We bred a male Ivory Retic (theorized to be a form of leukism, from a multi-allelic bracket of animals we call platinum. Also theorized to be 2 forms of "hets" which look similar and function on the same gene locus).
This male ivory was bred to a virgin female albino (recessive) tiger (incomplete dominant). The resulting clutch was split between normal platinums het for albino and tiger platinums het for albino, as you would expect. The wrench in the gears, was that 2 babies hatched out similarly to what you have experienced with the motleys. 1 is an albino platinum tiger, the other is a pure white black eyed leucistic. This prompted my brain to render through genetics courses long since forgotten. There are certainly people who can explain this better than I on here... but what appears to be happening with the motleys and what happened with us appears to be what is explained here: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v725546322233wg2/
Basically an animal which is genotypically heterozygous, is phenotypically homozyous. I am curious if anyone has bred their homozygous motleys from such a breeding to a normal, and had it breed like a homozygous motley- or if it bred like a heterozygous (normal) motley?
Interesting... interesting... interesting...
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we had something similar - prehistoricpets, Tue Oct 6 15:11:18 2009