Appy experts please
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Re: Appy experts please
Lp passes on like any other gene...a heterozygous Lp mating to another heterozygous Lp has a 25% chance of producing a non-Lp carrying, 25% chance of producing a homozygous and a 50% chance of producing another heterozygous. Case in point, my Bubba--solid as they come, and out of a nose-to-toes leopard by a blanketed stallion.
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Casey, on the other hand, is out of the "solid" mare, by the same blanketed stallion.
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Diane
Re: Appy experts please
Put him to another full-leopard patterned mare, or to a fewspot-patterned mare (increasing chances of whatever makes the nose-to-toes patterning being passed on, as well as the Lp). However, there is no guarantee that she'd get any particular pattern, even with the fewspot mare, as the whole patterning "mechanism" is a huge question mark, altho' the mechanism for the nose-to-toes patterning is called PATN-1. (I'm using the term "mechanism" cuz Rabbit gets unhappy when the term "gene" is used, since there is no definite proof of what gene or genes make that pattern. And I can understand that many people would latch onto the idea of PATN-1 being a specific gene, rather than a general simplification of something not quite understood yet, or located.)
The only thing that a fewspot (or snowcap for that matter) guarantees is the passing on of a copy of Lp...and as we know, that can be so minimally expressed as to not "count", at least when it comes to registration categories.
Diane
Re: Appy experts please
If he is a leopard, than he is only heterozygous for appy. A fewspot would be the LpLp equivalent of a leopard. Lplp have white with spots, LpLp have solid white without spots. He will pass on the appaloosa gene 50% of the time, but the extent of the pattern is a lot more difficult to predict. He could produce anywhere form only characteristic only to nose-to-toes patterns depending on what genes he carries as well as the mare.