Re: Yellow "Plicata" Pattern
- To: i*@rt66.com
- Subject: Re: Yellow "Plicata" Pattern
- From: t*@lanl.gov (Tom Tadfor Little)
- Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 09:27:36 -0600
Gerry writs
:Keith Keppel believes that luminata is not an alele of plicata, but a
:gene with a different locus, since some of his beauties seem to have
:both patterns simultaneously.
Are you sure about that? I though KK was one of the ones who helped
establish that the luminata gene was an allele at the plicata locus,
but I may be wrong. In any case, both patterns can and do appear together.
The conventional explanation for this is that the plicata and luminata
alleles are equally dominant, so an iris that has both alleles shows
both patterns.
The "glaciata" allele is also at the same locus, recessive to both
plicata and luminata alleles:
DOMINANT PL no pattern (self)
pl pl-lu plicata luminata
RECESSIVE pl-a glaciata
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