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Re: Blue Eyed Leucistics - question regarding BluEL offspring
 Originally Posted by Egapal
The problem with our disagreement is that there is no real definition for super form. Its not a genetics term so much as a herp term. The term was created to describe a visual difference in a homozygous form of a codominant animal for sure but I would argue that it could be correctly applied to a BEL.
As far as I know, and I've not heard otherwise, a super form is a when two co-dominates are bred together and produce an animal that when bred to a "Normal" can produce 100% it's co-dominate form. Which, again, as far as I know is the same as Homozygous.
The animal definitely keeps with the spirit of the term by having an appearance that differs greatly from its parents. But regardless of whether you believe that or not I am going to need you to either concede my point or else take the BEL out of the list you provided in a previous post as quoted here
Sorry, but it still Applies. As long as the Super form of a Lesser and a Mojave is a BEL, it will apply, but only to them, not the combo BELs. Again BEL is a general term for a specific appearance, and does not hint as to the genetics of the animal.
A BEL does not necessarily have anything in common with an Albino other than the fact that they look the way they do because of two genes at a particular locus. It could have two separate genes that express a phenotype that is very similar to the super form of either of those genes.
Oh yeah and still waiting for that example of a normal that's het for luecistic
Not necessarily True. A Homozygous BEL (again Lesser x Lesser, etc) is very similar to a Albino, the only difference is that Albino is a recessive trait so it is only expressed in it's Homozygous form, unlike Lessers which can be easily identified.
As far as the "Normal" het for Lucy, Randy already mentioned one example, I'll try to dig it up tonight, fiance was in town for V-Day this past weekend so I barely even touched my computer so I wasn't able to look for it then.
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