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Breeding
Gene Pool in 2023?
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[QUOTE="xp29, post: 2028924, member: 114539"] Morphs are genetic mutations for sure, but keep in mind evolution. In the wild only the strong AND well adaptive survive. Captive animals don't have the same stressors. So if you followed a line of free range animals and a line of captive animals i would imagine after a period of time you would start seeing deviations of the two lines (assuming both lines started from the same stock). In the wild evolution can take many generations but out of nowhere a line can change very unexpectedly very quickly. So that leaves me to wonder if in captive bred animals with less work just to survive if that could be excellerated. Not all mutations are necessarily bad or weaken the animal. Also many of the traits we see in the captive bred mutations can be seen in a smaller degree in wild animals, so some of that genetic information must already exist in a totally wild sampling. So i would think attentive breeders through careful selective breeding could bring those traits out. Their color is a good example (although color isn't a morph, but it is a trait). [/QUOTE]
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