good thoughts, matt. i'll need to re-read & think about them more. you've already prompted a couple thoughts here:



re: pyro hypos, didn't jeff breed one x the other and get no hypos? and since each of the hypothetical two types (barczyk, sentz) have bred true as recessives to the best of my knowledge, that hypoB X hypoS pairing producing no hypos wouldn't be possible if there aren't two diff morphs, or alleles, would it?



(with the hondos, on the other hand, the extremes appeared from regular hypo breedings. so even if there ARE two diff morphs, or even if extreme is NOT a simple recessive but a look derived from multiple gene interaction, then it's still logical all the babies would be hypos (as they were, you're correct in your assumption). It's as if the first hypos emerged out of an albino breeding pair (a highly unlikely event, i'll concede, but hypothetically stick with me on this for a minute) ...in that case, even if there were slight diff looks between albinos and hybinos, it would take some pretty well-thought-out pairings before you could isolate the hypo from the albino. Hope I said that in a logical way...but that, i think, indicates a factor complicating our gaining better insights into the nature of the "extreme" hypo.



terry

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