Axolotl cross tiger salamander

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Someone told me that axolotls have tiger salamander genes. Is this true?
 
Jye said:
Someone told me that axolotls have tiger salamander genes. Is this true?
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Not true wild Axolotls, but all axies in the hobby have Tiger genes... From what I understand it comes from a group at the Paris Natural History Museum in the 60s, but I might be wrong....
 
The "standard" laboratory axolotls were wild type or leucistic and originated from an import to Europe via the Jardin des Plantes Paris in the 1860's. The albino gene was introduced (with great difficulty) from an albino tiger salamander a century later.

If your axolotl has pink eyes it definitely has a chunk of Tiger DNA. There may be a few lines of wild type and leucistics around which do not contain tiger chromosomes, but unless you have a pedigree there is no way of knowing.
 
Wow! I had no idea. I simply thought that albino axolotls were simply bred to be that way in laboratories. I learn something new every day. I would give you some more "rep" oceanblue...but it says I need to spread some around. Haha. Cheers-
 
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