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Here is a question for you....there seem to be soooo many new 'morphs' coming out of Africa in the last few years, are they all spontaneously produced from 'normal' parents?
Has anybody spontaneously produced a new morph from captive breeding normals and has the morph been proven?
Please excuse my ignorance as I am just a humble sole looking for answers NOW....right now.
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Matt Lerer
'Ghi Reptiles'
'Ghi Arboreals'
Not too sure of any others.............
Jared Horenstein
wierd little normals..........
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>Here is a question for you....there seem to be soooo many new 'morphs' coming out of Africa in the last few years, are they all spontaneously produced from 'normal' parents?
Single mutants would be spontaneously produced. Not combinations. The parents might or might not be normal themselves.
>Has anybody spontaneously produced a new morph from captive breeding normals and has the morph been proven?
Mouse genetics literature is full of such instances, both from spontaneous mutations and from radiation induced mutations. See Genetic Variants and Strains of the Laboratory Mouse, by Lyons, et al.
Paul Hollander
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