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RandyRemington
at Sun Oct 17 08:39:42 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
I'm betting the nicer looking siblings are the result of several generations of the tendency of breeders to pick nice looking normals to breed to pastels. There is probably a concentration of high yellow genes in addition to the pastel gene in some of the pastel lines. Maybe these extra genes make the premium lines of pastel with exactly the same pastel gene as the “normal” pastels.
Of course the example of the nice looking early sibling would tend to point to some of the original pastels having some nice yellow extra genes but even it could have picked up color from it's "normal" foremothers in only one or two captive generations.
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