Albinism African Clawed Frog
peer reviewedrecessive
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy shows nothing at all. The animal looks ordinary and is called a carrier, or “het”.
- Two copies
- Two copies, one from each parent, are needed before it appears.
Albinism carrier × Albinism carrier
Four ways the two can meet.
1 in 4het Albinism
1 in 4het Albinism
1 in 4Albinism
1 in 4Normal
- het Albinism50%
- Albinism25%
- 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.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.
- High tyrosinase activity in albino Xenopus laevis oocytes. — J Embryol Exp Morphol 1976
- A comparative ultrastructural and physiological study on melanophores of wild-type and periodic albino mutants of Xenopus laevis. — Cell Tissue Res 1982
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving Albinism, worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.