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RandyRemington
at Fri Nov 7 11:06:19 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
I know someone who was looking into tests for het piebald back when the hets were much more expensive. At the time I think the odds of finding the gene responsible and developing a marketable test before the price of hets dropped seemed rather daunting. I'm wondering if rumors of this visible marker had anything to do with either that project going by the wayside (and fortunate if he gave up before spending too much money) or the quick drop in price of hets. I do feel that the marker in addition to the high initial price of the morph may have lead to the huge number of possible hets that where being produced early on. So, if you see a morph with lots of possible hets for sale be suspicious that there might be a marker. It could just be breeders working hard to produce more by working with possible het females but it could also be that there is a shortcut to keep them from investing too much time in the normal half of the possible hets.
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Genetic Testing - RandyRemington, Fri Nov 7 11:06:19 2003