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Mom leucistic (white), dad glowing green . What colour will babies be?
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Re: Mom leutistic(white, dad glowing green . Wat colour will babies be?
50% glowing green. All leucistic. If both parents have a recessive albino, you will get 25% white albino (leucistic and albino both).
50% glowing green. All leucistic. If both parents have a recessive albino, you will get 25% white albino (leucistic and albino both).
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are all types like that or is there some reading to be done on the subject? my two are wild type and melanoid and we had wild, melanoid, albino and golden albions
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Default color type is wild type. All the other major "colors" are caused by recessive genes, that is, you need two of that recessive gene to get that color. So, 2 leucistic parents will have all leucistic offspring. But the colors interact in some non-intuitive ways, so an axie that is both leucistic and albino will look white with pink eyes, with maybe some yellow freckles.
Because wild type is default, and all others are only seen if the individual got two recessives, it is hard to say what you will get when you breed axies of different colors, unless you know more about their genetics. Since you got albinos, both of your axies have albino recessive genes. Since you got melanoid, your wild type has a melanoid recessive.
GFP is a dominant gene, so one GFP parent results in 50% or 100% percent GFP. (If the parent has 2 GFP genes, all of its offspring will get one, and so all will be GFP). 2 GFP parents will have 75% or 100% GFP offspring.
Axolotls - Genetics and Colour has some basics.
Those unusual new colors like purple and copper? I don't know about those. I look forward to hearing more when people figure it out.
And then there are the chimeras, that are genetically 2 different axolotls that just happened to merge early in development. You can't breed for that - it just happens. :happy:
Because wild type is default, and all others are only seen if the individual got two recessives, it is hard to say what you will get when you breed axies of different colors, unless you know more about their genetics. Since you got albinos, both of your axies have albino recessive genes. Since you got melanoid, your wild type has a melanoid recessive.
GFP is a dominant gene, so one GFP parent results in 50% or 100% percent GFP. (If the parent has 2 GFP genes, all of its offspring will get one, and so all will be GFP). 2 GFP parents will have 75% or 100% GFP offspring.
Axolotls - Genetics and Colour has some basics.
Those unusual new colors like purple and copper? I don't know about those. I look forward to hearing more when people figure it out.
And then there are the chimeras, that are genetically 2 different axolotls that just happened to merge early in development. You can't breed for that - it just happens. :happy:
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Nice explanation Laura.
Coppers are considered to be a distinct recessive colour - technically an tyrosine positive albino - and works exactly the same as all the other recessive colour traits.
Purple axies are though to be axanthic, but the double axanthic gene opens up the axie to a certain virus and they often don't survive. But an axie with very few xanthaphores e.g. melanoid may appear purple.
Coppers are considered to be a distinct recessive colour - technically an tyrosine positive albino - and works exactly the same as all the other recessive colour traits.
Purple axies are though to be axanthic, but the double axanthic gene opens up the axie to a certain virus and they often don't survive. But an axie with very few xanthaphores e.g. melanoid may appear purple.