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Post by Adam Cotton on Jan 3, 2015 20:06:36 GMT
I look forward to seeing those photos... and to collecting a female dardanus that isn't f. hippocoon. Well, that is the dominant genotype, which means that the other forms are only expressed when the female carries 2 recessive genes, not just one. The frequency of occurrence of orange form females depends on the percentage of recessive genes in the population. If the orange genes are more common then the recessive form of the female will occur more often. I am breeding dardanus tibullus at the moment, and all the females are the normal type. The parent stock came from a single pair, and it looks like there were no recessive genes in the pair. The second generation is emerging at the moment, and I would expect to have at least one orange form female by now from the more than 10 females that have emerged so far. Adam.
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