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Coat colour Axolotl

peer reviewed

Offspring odds

No numbers for this one.

No inheritance mode has been recorded for Coat colour, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.

What this rests on

A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.

  • Genetic analysis of steel and the PG-M/versican-encoding gene AxPG as candidates for the white (d) pigmentation mutant in the salamander Ambystoma mexicanumDevelopment Genes & Evolution 1999
  • Genetic and developmental characteristics of a new color variant, axanthic, in the Mexican axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum Shaw.Dev Biol 1971

Entry in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Animals

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