There is no evidence to suggest that spider is homozygous lethal, at least not that I am aware of, and the statistical proof is not impossible to gain. Here is what I wrote in another thread:Originally Posted by Nick Mutton
"Until someone breeds and keeps records of spiderXspider pairings and then attempts to prove out the offspring, no one will be able to form an educated opinion. If people have kept these records as some suggest (and I'm sure some people have) then I would like to see them so that I could interpret them for myself. If somone could compile the data with a sample size (n) of 200 or more, and the probability (p) of producing a homozygous spider of <0.05 or lower, then I would be inclined to belive that it is improbable that any homozygous spiders exist.
Whether they exist or not, no one has proven that the responsible gene is homozygous lethal, at least not as far as I know. There could be other things that have prevented a homozygous form from being produced yet, and there could be some out there that aren't being bred or haven't been "discovered." Maybe they are sterile and can't reproduce? Is sterility common among 33% of spiders that result from a spiderXspider pairing? Short of seperating egg and sperm, taking one each with the spider gene and fertilizing the egg in vitro to see what happens, we won't know for sure."
After reading your post, another way would be to see if 25% of the eggs die during the incubation period, but no one has brought that up in the thread thus far.
Best of luck proving out your morph. Do you have any pictures of it and what have you decided to call it?
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