Recent Mussurana Pics

[Raven01]

Nice. The iridescence even shows in the pics, they must be stunning in person in full light.

[bioteacher]

Pardon the ignorant questions, but does that mean each egg has a 25% chance of being pied, with a pied x normal pairing?

No, the normal would have a 0% chance of passing on the gene, while the pied would have a 50% chance of passing on the gene.
The punnett square would look like this (with one parent being Pp and the other pp) if "P" = pied and "p" = normal allele. Sorry I couldn't figure out how to get the parents' alleles on the top and side of the p. square where they belong.

Pp	pp
Pp	pp

So we get 50% Pp and 50% pp, or 50% pied and 50% normal.

A homozygous pied or super pied with 2 pied alleles (homo = same) would produce all pieds when bred to a normal. (PP x pp)

Pp	Pp
Pp	Pp

[bioteacher]

Nice. The iridescence even shows in the pics, they must be stunning in person in full light.

Thanks! They really are stunning. Every time I see the male after a shed he is ridiculously black... like oil and very iridescent.

[Blackyote]

Thanks, Chris! That clears things up for me. I knew I needed a refresher on punnett squares but I was having difficulty finding a site that just... showed me one. XD

[lmtrej]

Guinness looks great Blackyote I'm just going to have to live vicariously through you guys until I finally get my own Mussurana.