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jesper
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My cyanurus larvae are just a couple of weeks old, in the beginning of spawning hindlegs, and I can already clearly noticing different colour phenotypes.
The pigment cells that began migrating from three dorsal/dorsolateral lines have proliferated differently. There is no correlation between the development of the animal and the migration pattern thus far.
The two oldest and most developed animals are quite different. One is pretty much black while the other one is yellow(very little pigment). I was quite surprised since both my orientalis and verrucosus larvae have shown correlation between development and darkness and they have all been very homogeneous.
I was even more surprised since I have bigger groups of orientalis(15) and verrucosus(27) and thus phenotyping should be more difficult in my smaller group of 8 cyanurus larvae.
I find it quite interesting with the background that Erik and Nate talked about a great colour distribution amongst siblings in C.cyaunurus.
(Message edited by Jesper on December 18, 2004)
The pigment cells that began migrating from three dorsal/dorsolateral lines have proliferated differently. There is no correlation between the development of the animal and the migration pattern thus far.
The two oldest and most developed animals are quite different. One is pretty much black while the other one is yellow(very little pigment). I was quite surprised since both my orientalis and verrucosus larvae have shown correlation between development and darkness and they have all been very homogeneous.
I was even more surprised since I have bigger groups of orientalis(15) and verrucosus(27) and thus phenotyping should be more difficult in my smaller group of 8 cyanurus larvae.
I find it quite interesting with the background that Erik and Nate talked about a great colour distribution amongst siblings in C.cyaunurus.
(Message edited by Jesper on December 18, 2004)
