Quote Originally Posted by sungmina View Post
I will ask him about the homozygous spider for you, but I will simply pm you anything I find out so that we don't beat the dead horse anymore about spider wobble. Since the post was about the lethality of the homozygous spider, and not about spider wobble anyways...

I only mentioned it because it was in the discussion I had with him about the reason why his homozygous spider wobbled badly, he did not believe it had anything to do with the animal carrying two copies of the spider gene, only that it was the heavy inbreeding (once again this was an older animal from before the lines became more diluted.)
About the bolded: How certain are you about this supposedly heavy inbreeding early on with spiders? Have you seen documentation of this, or is this just hearsay? I haven't seen any evidence to suggest spiders were more heavily inbred than other mutations, especially considering they reproduce in the first generation. Sure, maybe two or three generations when they were still trying to find a super form, but that doesn't really constitute heavy inbreeding when compared to most recessive mutations. Simple logic would tell me the exact opposite would have been more likely, and the original spider male would have been bred much more to normal females and other mutations than to his spider daughters.