Leucisitic Breeding with Black?

[LarissaLurid]

Hi, I'm not really planning on breeding axolotl or anything, but I'm just really curious what you would guess the outcome of offspring to be from a leucistic breeding with a black axolotl?

 

[Kaysie]

It depends on the genes the adults are carrying. "Black" axolotl is pretty vague. Is it a dark wildtype, or a melanoid?

Unless the dark one is carrying leucistic genes, or both are heterozygous for albinism, chances are you will have all wildtype offspring.

 

[LarissaLurid]

It depends on the genes the adults are carrying. "Black" axolotl is pretty vague. Is it a dark wildtype, or a melanoid?

Unless the dark one is carrying leucistic genes, or both are heterozygous for albinism, chances are you will have all wildtype offspring.

Sorry I meant melanoid, not wildtype. I know that with wildtype you'd get basically all of those since the other (albinism) is a recessive trait.

 

[Kaysie]

I'd gather that you'd still get all wildtype, again, unless the adults were heterozygous for something.

For instance, if the melanoid is a carrier for leucistic, you will get 50% leucistic offspring, 50% 'other'. If the leucistic is a carrier for melanoid, 50% of your offspring will be melanoid (either light or dark, again, depending).

It's impossible to tell without breeding them a couple of times, or knowing the phenotype of the parents and grandparents. It's like a big jigsaw puzzle.