Philippe,

As I explained today on a French forum in a long post (I’ll make it shorter), last years I had doubts about the fact that they were pure longicauda’s for one main reason. Nearly all the longicauda out there have the same origines, I mean that the original genetic pool is quite limited, whatever breeders can say, inbreeding must has been done to keep it ‘pure’. Many people bought pairs, brother/ siter or very closely related ones, so I thought that if there was a gene, it was almost impossible for it not to have allready popped out ! Now that Herman S. has got the same results this year (called ‘zero’), I am a beleiver and it confirmed what I was thinking. I am now sure that in a very close future patternless will pop out in longicauda breeding, mainly littermate breedings.

I say that because it’s logical and that we have had the same thing here in Europe with the moelia spilota variegata (irian jaya) granite. Suddenly in 2006, they have started to appear with littermate breeding pairs, 2 breeders in France, 1 in Belgium, 1 in Danmark and may be some others I am not aware off. In that case, a breeder start it alone and it came afterwood with other breeder. In that case to the originzl gene pool was poor and it was not possible to breed without inbreeding. Inbreeding isn’t the best way to have a chance to reveal a new mutations ?

I also think in that case, nothing is proved when it comes to inherance, what happened with the scorias ? They came out from a normal pair, they also have a reduce pattern and proved out to be a dominant form.!! We have to prove not to guess, I think.

Thanks for reading.

Alain.

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