what happens if i breed an olive whith albino

[WATERPUPPY]

i need to know what happens if i breed a olive whith a albino:tongue: i have the olive im getting a albno and i need to know what do you call olives and albinos

 

[Kal El]

Hello Waterpuppy,

By 'olive', do you mean that your axolotl has a golden colouring to it? Because if this is the case, the golden phenotype (appearance) will dominate over the albino phenotype; that is, the majority of the larvae will have the golden colour. However, it is difficult to say for sure because there are three strains of the albino genotypes, and you did not specify the exact phenotype of the new albino axolotl.

I suggest you take a look at this website: http://www.ambystoma.org/AGSC/strains.htm

Jay.

 

[WATERPUPPY]

no its a green couler whith black:supercool:

 

[Kal El]

no its a green couler whith black:supercool:

I going to assume you mean a wild type axolotl; which is much easier to explain. The wild type will always dominate over the albino genotype. All the larvae will be the 'olive' colour. However, I'm assuming that your 'olive' coloured axolotl is homozygous for the wild type phenotype. Sorry, I can't explain it any clearer- it's hard to discuss genetics without getting technical.

Once again, I strongly recommend that you visit the site I provided and then draw up the necessary Punnet square. Keep in mind that it will be difficult (if not, impossible) to determine whether your axolotl is heterozygous/homozygous for the wild type alleles, just by looking at it.

Jay.

 

[ianclick]

Hi Waterpuppy,

Not being a geneticist myself I have sort advice, The general consensus is that there is not really anyway of guaranteeing what the colouration of the offspring would be.

I have included a quote below which may make it clearer or not as the case may be.

"There is not "wildtype genotype", there are several genes for different pigment cells plus the leucistics gene. A homozygous wildtype, if ever that could be named this way, would be A/A, M/M, AX/AX and D/D. In this very special case, all the offspring would be wildtype phenotype.

If the wildtype would be heterozygous for albinism, there very well would be albinotic offspring. If it was heterozygous for leucism, there could be leucistics and so on".

There is always the chance of mutations in colouration whatever the colour of the parents. This even happens in humans with caucasian parents having dark coloured offspring and Dark coloured parents having albino offspring.