Cavy Genetics: An Exploration

cavy genetics : An Exploration Originally written by Nick Warren, 1999; Revised and updated by Bryan Mayoh, with input from Simon Neesam, 2008 Introduction This article is unlikely to help you if your sole focus within the cavy fancy is to make improvements within a well-established, existing breed. Here, tried and tested principles (such as Breed to the best to the best and hope for the best and Avoid duplicating faults in the parents and try to ensure that between them they have all the good points you are seeking in the offspring ) probably comprise most of the knowledge of genetics that you need. However, if you are considering how you might improve one of the less popular breeds by crossing to another breed; if you are seeking to create a new breed by recombining genes that are responsible for the existing breeds; or if you are simply curious about how the many different varieties of cavy arise or which new ones may be possible, then hopefully it will be of interest.

Boar’s genes Sow’s genes P p P PP Pp p Pp pp From this you can see at a glance that 1 in 4 (25%) of the offspring will be true breeding, homozygous Purples; 1 in 4 (25%) will be (homozygous) Pink; whilst 2 of the 4 (50%) will

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