I appreciate your correction on the matter. I was simply parroting what I'd heard from another breeder (e.g. what I understood to be true). I am however, glad to be corrected on the subject.

You are truly welcome! I thoroughly respect your humility. Not a lot of people like being corrected and many choose to ignore the findings or ideas of others and just continue along their merry way while continuing to misinform many others which becomes a vicious cycle. While I make no claims as to being an expert on any particular subject, I am well read as well as being open-minded enough to also listen to other ideas. Case in point, less than a year ago, I was challenged on my usage of the term Albino instead of the more proper Amelanistic by one of my friends/peers. While he could not himself properly explain why Amelanism was correct and Albinism wrong, I took it upon myself to do extensive research which ultimately led me to fully comprehend and understand, that not only was his assertions right, but why they were right and thus I was able to explain in detail to him what I learned as to why he was correct.

The bottom line is, we can all learn so much from each other when we have open minds and spend the time and effort to research and have such discussions over these matters. Genetics, and the understanding thereof, is a very complex matter and yet so many of us use genetic terms in a lackadaisical way without fully comprehending their definitions and what is actually applicable or not.

As a community, we really need to have more discussions and consensus on the usage over many of these terms. Unfortunately, too few show any real interest.

Let's keep up with these kinds of discussions!
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Troy Rexroth
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