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Warren_Booth
at Wed Jan 11 06:58:38 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Warren_Booth ]
Doug,
Also be aware that "true locale" boas in many instances represent highly inbred lines. For example, how many founder animals are there in the Sonoran locale projects, the Tarahumara, Crawl Cays, etc. While we try to outbreed our lines, in essence our lines are pretty much all related and thus outbreeding is essentially gaining little. We are line breeding, and this is highly likely the reason Hermann has stumbled across his Zeros (TM). Without deliberately inbreeding, by even crossing his "unrelated lines", the chance of increased homozygosity is elevated due to the common origin of many of the samples that left the country.
Warren ----- Dr Warren Booth / Director USARK
North Carolina State University
Department of Entomology

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