All I can add to the above post is that there are many ways to produce animals that are lighter in color than normal. FWIW, andalusian in chickens is caused by a codominant mutant gene that produces "blue" birds when heterozygous and combined with an independent black mutant. AFAIK, palomino in horses is caused by a codominant mutant. And there are other more or less dominant mutants that lighten the color in other species. So salmon is not unique.

Paul Hollander

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• Hypo/Salmon? - gentlemantw0, Fri Apr 15 23:40:05 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - Gotboids18, Fri Apr 15 23:48:20 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - VolcomHerp, Sat Apr 16 08:22:37 2005
• The trait doesn't fit... - Rainshadow, Sat Apr 16 08:48:52 2005
• Well said (more) - Paul Hollander, Sat Apr 16 15:32:12 2005
• Hi Paul... - Rainshadow, Sat Apr 16 18:23:00 2005
• RE: Hypo/Salmon? - callmedaddie, Sat Apr 16 13:17:04 2005
• Also...... - callmedaddie, Sat Apr 16 13:26:13 2005
• Homzygous Hypo and Arabesques.... - Sojourn, Sun Apr 17 09:49:19 2005
• Damn coffee...... - Sojourn, Sun Apr 17 09:51:33 2005