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The curious thought that occurred to me is as follows:
How sure are you of the genotype of the mousies you keep and/or breed? I know the question has been posed about whether or not your stock breeds true; appearance can be deceptive.
For instance, some folks think that A^vy always breeds fat meeces with brindling. What happens when you add e and then select for fit and trim meeces? Does that result in weeding out all the A^vy or is there a case to be made that these two genes could work together? A^vy is one of the varieties derived from radiation experiments. Can the brindling be bred out? Will they always be fat?
Things like this keep me from sleeping sometimes....
How sure are you of the genotype of the mousies you keep and/or breed? I know the question has been posed about whether or not your stock breeds true; appearance can be deceptive.
For instance, some folks think that A^vy always breeds fat meeces with brindling. What happens when you add e and then select for fit and trim meeces? Does that result in weeding out all the A^vy or is there a case to be made that these two genes could work together? A^vy is one of the varieties derived from radiation experiments. Can the brindling be bred out? Will they always be fat?
Things like this keep me from sleeping sometimes....