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RG
at Wed Dec 1 20:42:50 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RG ]
of explaining my thoughts in my first post.
I believe the Love's first Hypo was a simple recessive gene. I also know that you took what they started and ran with it!
I also think most/many of these Hypo traits are allele...since most if not all originated from that first imported male.
Discussion of "cleanness" and tipping and band width & etc. is irrelevant, imho: those are pattern variations, not variations of melanin deposited into areas that would be black on a normal or wild-type.
I agree the cleanness, band width and pattern don't have anything to do with the Love's version of Hypo gene. However, I think others were confused when they had the "Tangerine Dream Line" knowing the potential of producing a hypo and considered a "cleaner" or cleanest individual of a new clutch a Hypo (or if a pinbanded individual was produced as well).
Just like a pattern variation, I think this was the beginning of a new polymorphic Hypo line, due to generations of selective breeding by what others considered(sometimes incorrectly) a true Hypo.
Like you stated...you'll have wild types that range from light to dark...so if you select the lightest ones to hold back and to breed...isn't that line breeding for the look of a polymorphic hypo?
I'm maybe out of line with this thought, but: if you have two hondos that look like normals, like the two in your photo, and they produce all normal looking offspring, I'd question whether the original identification of one or the other or both of the parents was in error. That just seems logical.
Exactly! However, both Hondurans that I have I would consider Hypo...they both were VERY light as neonates and still had a dark gray color as adults. The female tricolor I got directly from you. Which in light of my recent thoughts...I'm glad I got the bulk of my Honduran stock from you even if it was second and third hand.
Given that you obtained your stock from the Love's which was traced back to an importer/exporter from Honduras means a lot to me considering how mixed I think the general "hobby hondo" could potentially be now.
I'm still working with this stuff and I hope to share more in the coming years...hopefully with some help from a few friends!
Thanks for your inputs Terry!
-Rusty
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- Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - RG, Tue Nov 30 16:51:46 2010
- Interesting thoughts, Rusty - Sunherp, Tue Nov 30 18:30:23 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - DMong, Tue Nov 30 20:17:25 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - terryd, Tue Nov 30 22:00:18 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - KevinM, Tue Nov 30 22:24:44 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - vjl4, Wed Dec 1 09:41:13 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - shannon brown, Wed Dec 1 12:16:22 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - shannon brown, Wed Dec 1 12:59:48 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - tspuckler, Wed Dec 1 13:14:35 2010
- RE: Hypomelanistic Hondurans - Recessive? - rtdunham, Wed Dec 1 18:30:00 2010
 Correct...I didn't do the best... - RG, Wed Dec 1 20:42:50 2010
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