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Rainshadow
at Mon Nov 17 11:42:49 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rainshadow ]
At the number of people that have trouble identifying this trait. Quite often I see animals posted as anerythristics,which clearly are NOT,and,simply put,I don't understand it. Anerythrism is one of those mutations that is pretty cut,and,dried...a true anerythristic animal lacks the neccessary biochemical components to produce the color "red",this,by obvious deduction includes the various secondary colors that would result from any combination involving erythristic chromataphores.A true anerythristic animal also typically passes this biochemical anomoly in a simple reccessive manner when bred,producing essentially "normal" looking heterozygotes for the same condition. prior to proof of genetic transmission,any boa that appears anerythristic should be called "possible",or,"unproven" anerythristic,to be accurate,and,honest.(IMHO)
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