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Rainshadow
at Thu Jun 16 11:01:58 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Rainshadow ]
Every year there seems to be more interesting occurences of genetic paradox's...they don't always have immediate answers.My first reaction to the news of the patternless Harlequins was,"What in the *$@ does this mean!?!"(among several other expletives which I will leave to imagination  ) I've always felt that the first thing to do at the onset of any anomolous occurence,or,results within a breeding project,is to repeat the process,second would be to think of backcrossing the anomoly to either,or,both parents,(separately with opposite sexed offspring if possible,a male back to the mother/female back to the father,etc...)I'm very happy & excited for Brendan,but,also intrigued by what will happen when I breed the two F3 sisters!(???)I tend to analyze things realisticlly,and,I honestly do NOT think that both of the animals he bred were heterozygous for a genetic patternless boa...I also don't (realisticlly) expect to pop out patternless boas when I breed the females...What I do hope for is more extreme variation! I think,based on what we've seen so far,that there is a measure of unpredictability here & my plans are to continue to show the results as we stumble over trying to describe them...can you imagine a patternless solid orange "hypo"?! or, a patternless T positive albino?
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- Here's what keeps my brother up at night... - Rainshadow, Wed Jun 15 10:55:55 2005
- YUP....... - ghireptiles, Wed Jun 15 11:00:36 2005
- DOH!!!! HHELLLOO!!! Phew.. that thing is too much for words!! more.. - bcijoe, Wed Jun 15 11:23:05 2005
- Outrageous! This came from 2 normals?? n/m - Ji_, Wed Jun 15 11:56:13 2005
- The eyes are great ... - EricNL, Wed Jun 15 13:27:39 2005
- Awesome! - StonedReptiles, Wed Jun 15 16:25:45 2005
- A horrible example of a photoshop'd picture.............. - JohnLokken, Wed Jun 15 19:38:58 2005
- RE: Simply awesome Tim! Do you have pics of the parents you could show?? - ajfreptiles, Wed Jun 15 23:44:36 2005
- WOW THAT IS AWESOME~~~~ - BoaRepublic, Thu Jun 16 00:22:39 2005
- Genetics aren't my thang, so I'm not even going to touch that, BUT .... - Amanda_Burke, Thu Jun 16 18:09:56 2005
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Another excellent post Celia... - Rainshadow, Thu Jun 16 11:01:58 2005