Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
Turn your sound on when you watch the video, he explains the best theory we have at the time.


I'm curious what happen when it reproduces, if the theory is true.

Does it always throw the mojave gene, since the other gene is damaged, thus making it act like a true BEL?
Does the damage gene get passed as a damaged/not expressed gene, with the ability to keep producing this phenomenon?
Or depending on why it's damaged/not being expressed does it pass as normal, thus making the animal a mojave that looks like a BEL.
or is the theory completely wrong?

can't wait to hear the results of that animal's offspring. there have been a couple animals popping up with this going on.
I heard the theory...it just doesn't make sense to me. I LOVE genetics. I would marry genetics if I could (yes, I'm a nerd). If he only had one copy of the mojave gene...he wouldn't express it as a bell. It would still be like a mojave gene and a damaged wildtype gene. I guess logically his theory doesn't make sense to me. Something that makes more sense (if only to me), is that the mother either A. was a very bad example of a mojave (it would be nice to know what HER parents were) that was just assumed to be normal or B. there is some other gene linked to the mojave gene. One gene that controls the actual pattern and one unknown gene that's paired to it. Then the mother could have a damaged mojave pattern gene, but when the other gene is paired with the mojave, it then expresses the super form.