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?Result of crossing Pied x Albino?
805Ringo
May 10, 2006 01:46 AM
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pizzacoolio
May 11, 2006 08:30 PM
Breeding double hets together can yield (1 in 16) an albino pied. Ralph Davis has made lavender albino pieds already, but no regular albino pieds yet. The pied makes the regular patterned patches very high contrast.
RandyRemington
May 13, 2006 09:39 AM
The original cross of homozygous Piebald X homozygous Albino would be expected to produce normal looking double hets. As mentioned above, crossing those double hets together would be expected to produce eggs each with a 1/16 chance of being double homozygous albino and pied.
However, although not particularly likely, there are several possible twists that might complicate this away from the expected. For example, if it turns out that the albino and pied mutations are close together on the same chromosome then the odds of producing the double homozygous albino pied from a pair of double hets would be much much less than 1/16 (but as a consolation almost all the normal looking offspring would be double hets rather than the expected 44%).
