GFP Axolotl
peer revieweddominant
Carries a jellyfish gene inserted in a laboratory, which makes the tissue glow green under blue or ultraviolet light. Invisible in ordinary light.
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy is enough to see it.
- Two copies
- Two copies look the same as one.
GFP × GFP
Four ways the two can meet.
1 in 4GFP
1 in 4GFP
1 in 4GFP
1 in 4Normal
- GFP75%
- Normal25%
A pale box is an animal that shows the morph. These are the odds for each egg on its own, not a promise about a clutch.
Worth knowing. This is a transgene from laboratory research stock, not a mutation that arose in axolotls. One copy is enough to see it, so a GFP animal bred to a normal one produces about half GFP offspring.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving GFP, worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.