I bought pair of het clowns from Sean Bradley (EBN), fathered by his awesome reduced pattern clown. They won't be here til spring now because of the weather but...I have a question. They have a wild-type appearance (not reduced).
So lets pretend for a minute that the clown gene is DOMINANT so that you may better understand my question. Bear with me...
I want to know if I breed a reduced pattern (RP) clown to a normal female..say with a normal busy pattern...would the offspring be average clowns with a busy spotted pattern? Could I get a RP clown from a RP normal x average clown?
Or would I still get RP clowns because the clown gene determines the pattern? Maybe since the clown is double recessive (no normal genes) the normal pattern may be irrelevent?
The spider gene seems to be related to both parents patterns- RP normals bred to spiders produce RP spiders, but maybe that's because they have a normal gene in there....
Wow that is confusing. Hope someone out there understands my rambling...