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Skin colour Mimic Poison Frog

peer reviewed

Offspring odds

No numbers for this one.

No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin 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.

  • A histological analysis of coloration in the Peruvian mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator).PeerJ 2023
  • The genomics of mimicry: Gene expression throughout development provides insights into convergent and divergent phenotypes in a Müllerian mimicry system.Mol Ecol 2024
  • What makes a mimic? Orange, red, and black color production in the mimic poison frog (Ranitomeya imitator).Genome Biol Evol 2024

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