Jeff, I spent a couple days looking for that correspondence and drew a blank though it's vaguely familiar to me, too. so here are some responses to your (green) questions...

>>You and I had a discussion about lavender albinos and comparing them to hypos(about 1.5-2 years ago).Remember?

Reemmber something that happened 1.5-2 years ago? Ahh, Jeff, how little you know me!

>>Trying to define hypomelanism?

Reduced melanin...melanin can be black or brown pigments...can occur in varying degrees...are those the general ideas?

Actually though i do remember us disagreeing over your position, something about some hypos being albinos or something, (don't want to misstate your arguments, pop 'em up here again!) I don't think i was persuaded. I vaguely remember taking the position that if ALL melanin is lacking it's an amel (albino) and if SOME melanin is present it's a hypo, although the degrees could vary, just as hypo corns might in theory have a greater (or lesser) degree of melanin reduction than hypo hondos or hypos of some other species, for example, and just as there could be two different hypo morphs of a given animal, hondos for example, those two morphs having different degrees of melanin reduction. IF that was the nature of what you're referring to, you're welcome to try it on me again!

>>Anyway,I have believed that line to be different

But in fact both mike's and paul's "extreme hypos" trace back to regular hypos I produced from regular hypos from bill and kathy love, so different? elaborate...

>>>and we know of the increased likelihood of recessives popping out of already morphed animals.

No, I don't. Can you explain? Other than that "already morphed" animals are often bred to related animals to produce more of the morph, which increases the likelihood of other recessive traits also being mainfested (but that's a consequence of inbreeding, not of morph-breeding, if you will) , I'm not aware of any reason to believe that the fact that an animal is a morph makes it more liable to producing subsequent morphs. So again, elaborate...

>>Maybe now would be a good time to revisit that thread and thinking??Jeff

I'm game, put hte ideas up here. Maybe start a new thread?

terry

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