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rtdunham
at Tue Apr 13 12:42:43 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rtdunham ]
>>Terry,quickly and simply I was just trying to prod others to open the morph discussion.
can't quarrel with that, i guess. but how, and what we discuss...
>>Although it was aimed at what I still think to be a "lavender albino"/"extreme hypo"....
then let's pursue that. you've thrown that out before but i still don't understand the argument you're making...again, unless you're just calling a hypo an albino on an isolated definition not in accord with the broader use of the words. I enjoy focusing on the issue, so it's important i figure out what the issue is. 
>>I also tried to incorperate the obvious(to me anyways,lol)discrepancies in the nomenclature.
that's always worthwhile.
>>That is NOT to say that any "marketing name"cant or shouldnt stick
i agree that we should stop saying albino and start saying amelanistic, but boy, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that the effort wins much support
>>,just that I think it appropriate that we THINK these genes being "even".
have no idea what you mean by that. if you mean thinking that hypo and albino (or amel?) are "equal," then a) i have no idea what "equal" means--the same? different but equivalent--i mean they're both recessive, so they're equivalent in that way? and b) it's not appropriate to think of them as "even" or equal or whatever your intent is UNLESS THEY ARE, and that's what my questions are aimed at determining...so far, i haven't seen anything to suggest they're the same.
>>Further,I think it may be about time that we can get some MEANINGFUL numbers out of the ratios that occur:#1 the ratio of a morph occuring within any captive collection....and comparing that with the ratio of ADDITIONAL morphs popping up within morph lines.From these numbers we can see exactly how closely related a single species is in captivity(accounting for wc's as well)almost to a predictable point.
in the absence of numbers, is there even anecdotal information that persuades you that a new morph is likely to occur in a line that's already expressing a morph? maybe that's the crux of it, either you know something i don't or might be interpreting some results differently than i would?
terry
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RE: I tried to post 3 other times,each time it was lost when the phone rang,lol - rtdunham, Tue Apr 13 12:42:43 2004