Parthenogenesis and null allele

[t_h_wyman]

Any sexually produced babies from a partho female should be genetically more divers and thus should be no different than any other sexually produced babies
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@ascended

Just a random idea, but would the smaller size help populating new small islands due to the less nutritional needs and a smaller environment?. or isn’t that passed on. Or would the smaller size be lost over time?

Insular dwarfism is a geologic/evolutionary time frame change, not the same as you would see from the partho effect which seems to be more a stunting of growth/metabolism due to excessive homogeneity

[rpasko]

Did you end up with any super forms? I just had a clutch and I am wondering if I ended up with a super fire because her pairing was mahogany x fire. I have an all white baby

[rlremington]

Was the mom the fire and the white baby female? If so, partho is at least a possibility.

I produced an albino genetic stripe partho female from an albino het gs female. Her daughter from a previous clutch with an actual dad also produced a partho daughter once so it would seem to run in families.

I still have two daughters from those two previous partho producing females (but the daughters have dads) in my collection. Hopefully they lost the partho gene. One has laid already and the clutch is looking good unlike the partho clutches that had high egg death.