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Jlassiter
at Fri Jan 1 18:50:49 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jlassiter ]
First thing......You are correct Greg...I do have 2.1 of Shannon's Melanistics here on breeding loan along with a female leonis thayeri produced by Dan Vermilya......We are going to use the female to produce some melanistic hets.....
Secondly....The 2.1 Melanistics are from Gerritt in Germany and are known to have produced all Melanistic offspring just as a simple recessive gene would work.....According to the background work that Burnsy (Gerritt) did on them they can be traced back to Lloyd Lemke...and as a matter of fact lots of melanistic thayeri can be traced back to Lloyd, but not all.....I emailed Shannon to elaborate on the lineage and am awaiting his reply......I am going to advertise them as Lemke line melanistics due to the fact that I do not own them and believe what Shannon & Gerritt have told me......
Also.....I have been diligently searching for an older thread (late 2008 or early 2009) concerning melanistic thayeri and Chris Harper's explanation of how some lines breed simple Mendelian recessive and some do not.......and how the trait is somehow polymorphic.....
I would really like to find that thread, but cannot....I believe Joe Forks posted in that thread many times as well....Maybe Chris or Joe will chime in here.....
I think Lance's Melanistics are from Larry Briggs as well Greg.....But I am not 100% sure....Again maybe he will add the correct info here.....
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John Lassiter
Poor planning and procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part...
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RE: Melanistic thayeri revisted - Jlassiter, Fri Jan 1 18:50:49 2010