Re: jungle/jungle pastel/ pastel
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How do you define "consistently different".
What I was trying to get across was the idea that they appear to be two discretely different morphs. From pure lines does the lest enchi like enchi pastel look different than the most enchi like regular pastel? Still, when we are talking about appearances it doesn't mean much. There could be two different mutations that just happened to look the same to our eyes just as easily as there could be variations of the same mutation that looked like two different ones. It’s hard to eliminate possibilities without lots of breeding results.
The way I see it here are the possibilities and the breeding tests to narrow them down:
1. Pastel Jungle and Enchi Pastel are the SAME mutation of the SAME gene. In this scenario the differences in appearance are family resemblance due to other genes in each line. Have enchi's been outbred to normals much and still retained the same distinctive look? If so, that would tend to go against this scenario. Crossing the two lines together and being able to clearly pick out which babies where regular pastel and which where enchi pastel without intergrades that could be counted either way would also help but probably not the best test as there could be a single extra gene causing the family resemblance. The outbreeding test is probably a better one for this scenario.
2. Pastel Jungle and Enchi Pastel are DIFFERENT mutations of the SAME gene (a multiple mutant allele situation). The best test for this I can think of is to produce the apparent super and breed it to a bunch of normals. If the babies are all either pastel jungle or enchi pastel (about a 50/50 split) with no normals and no supers and they are easily divisible into the two types then this seems the most likely explanation. However, as pointed out, linking of different genes by being close together on the same chromosome could also look like this.
3. Pastel Jungle and Enchi Pastel are DIFFERENT mutations of DIFFERENT genes. If this is the case, then if they do produce a super looking animal due to the combined effect when crossed that "super" will produce some normals when bred to a normal. About 25% of the babies will not get either gene, and 25% will get both. Neither of these are possible in scenarios 1 or 2.
Re: jungle/jungle pastel/ pastel
Re: jungle/jungle pastel/ pastel
The Enchi and its combos certainly look distinctive but for me the jury will still be out until we have breeding results from the combos like the Enchi Lemon Pastel and the Enchi Bumblebee. Will they be capable of producing normals or will all the babies be either pastel or Enchi and none both (assuming bred to a normal for both pastel and Enchi)?
Re: jungle/jungle pastel/ pastel
Wow this thread is old...
