albino find.....

[squinn]

As far as i've been able to dicern these are the first albinos of this species found (green frogs) A friend of mine found two of these this past weekend.

[scubasubie]

Wow thats really cool. I alway enjoy seeing albino animals in the wild. I've seen albino Moose and Deer.

[zebrajanie]

Steve.. That's utterly amazing that animal lived long enough to be that size..
Thanks so much for sharing.. !

[squinn]

Steve.. That's utterly amazing that animal lived long enough to be that size..
Thanks so much for sharing.. !

It gets better he actually found two albinos in the drainage ditch....wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the tads in their end up being hets as well. Be cool to produce a clutch of these.

[zebrajanie]

I wonder what the albino to normal rate would be.. iiiiinteresting....

[squinn]

I wonder what the albino to normal rate would be.. iiiiinteresting....

This should be the breakdown

albino to albino (very unlikely scenario in wild) 100% as you might expect

albino to heterozygous animal (also unlikely as albino would likely not reach adulthood but is not impossible) 50% would be albino 50% would carry trait in the genes.

heterozygous to heterozygous (most likely scenario) 25% would be albino

heterozygous to normal (can not produce albinos) 0% would be albino but a percentage of offspring would still carry the gene in the heterozygous form below is a punnet square that demonstrates the most likely scenario only the AA will be visually albinos anything with one capitol A will carry the gene but will not be visually a morph aa will not carry the gene or be able to pass it on to future generations.



        A     a
       
A     AA    Aa


a     Aa     Aa

[zebrajanie]

Neat !
Now... wonder if some of those will relocate themselves to my area...
I'll protect you guys !
still way too neat a find.