But if there were leucistics they would be double recesive, multiple recesive traits would be responsible for the leucistic aperance

So they can't be bred the same way as dragons with only 1 recesive trait like a hypomelanistic.

So the outcome (25%, 50%, 25%) for the het leu x het leu pairing wouldn't ad up.

As far as i know they have always been bred the same way as hypomelanistics.

So couldn't it be that if there was a leucistic dragon there have been made some mistakes with breeding them to produce more???????????

There would be color in the 25% that was suppose to be leucistic in a het leu x het leu pairing, wich is pefectly logical if leucism is double recesive.

Could this be the reason that everyone is saying that they do not exist?????????



But If for example you make het leucistics from snows (leucistic x snow) and then do a het lue x het lue paring the difference in fenotype of the 25% ("leucistic" wich is at least hypomelanistic would be very hard to see and a hypo het for leu could look very much the same as the treu luecistic.

So then this could be the case why leucism went al wrong en why color was bred into them later. (because they were hypomelanistic & het for leu.

Could this be the reason that everyone is saying that they do not exist?????????



IMO it would be very much the same as snow boa wich is produced by 2 recesive traits combined, only 6,25% could be a snow boa.



Back to the dragons.

The only thing is that i do not know if the erythrophores and the xanthophores are linked.

If they are linked the leucism is IMO double recesive.

If the are not linked and are both seperate recesive traits in a leucistic then they would be triple recesive.

If you would do a het leu x het leu pairing knowing this there would be a very slim chance for a leucistic in a clutch. (meaning a dragon wich is himozygous for those 3 traits)





greetings from the netherlands,



Duncan
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