really helpful link thnx, although don't know if my normals are het for anything so may get some suprises one day

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good links and im sure ill be learnign all about this, but ATM thats making me go cross eyed!

Ill have to get my house mate to explain it to me, although she didnt like genetics very much on her course.

Seems like a good explanation of the basics of mendelian genetics.

I didn't see it mention the possibility of linkage drag however - this is something that breeders will have to keep an eye out for as more animals are inbred.

Basically, it is when a trait such as "pastel colour" is joined by another neutral, positive or negative trait that gets carried over during breeding.

For example, you could breed a particular colour variety but also drag across a gene complex that cannot synthesise a particular protein, or that sensitises the animal to a certain disease. The more animals are inbred, the more they increase in homozygosity - if animals lack variation, it usually tends to increase the build up of negative alleles, so linkage drag of negative alleles could become a real problem.

I think it would be nice to see some reference to more realistic genetics in the hobby - mendelian ratios are one thing, but they don't really cover all the potential damages that inbreeding can cause.

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Rau,1933: Anyone who has watched insects or animals living their lives freely in the open knows that they do not always do their everyday duties in the same way; that there are in each population conservatives and radicals, stupid, brilliant, mediocre, and probably insane individuals.

Ouch, giving this a read hurts! Back to revision i guess, less testing

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