HI Terry,

The pale/bright contrast is really cool. If it does pan out that pale = hybino it could suggest that the hypo morph results from a reduction in the ammount of pigment taken up into cells (or a reduction in pigment cell number/size) and not from a reduction in the amount of melanin produced. Do you have any data to suggest either alternative?

Along those lines (and for its own sake too) it would be interesting to see what and extreme hybino would look like.

Cheers,
Vinny
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