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Breasted with Purple Breasted Gouldian Finches
het: heterozygous ( carrying more then 1 mutational characteristic in this instance Pb/Wb aka split ) hom: homozygous ( carrying no mutational characteristics a.k.a. as pure or Pb in this case) Nor: nor ( wild coloured ( purple breast, green back homozygous)) Wb: White Breasted This recessive autosomal gene found in gouldian finches is the most recessive of all gouldian finch breast genes. This recessiveness is quite desired by most as white breasted gouldians are more prized generally, and so some may impatiently pair two white breasted lady gouldians together in the hopes of getting a clutch of 100% white breasted gouldian finches not realizing that with this extremely recessive gouldian gene can come some other extremely recessive traits. The order of dominance is as follows: -Purple breasted -Blue Breasted -Rose -Lilac -White Most show breeders will avoid pairing white breasted gouldian finches to white breasted gouldian finches as it invariably leads to smaller less robust offspring. The white breasted gene is best expressed by pairing two heterozygous ( a.k.a. split white breasted) gouldian finches together a seen in the above chart. Click Thumbnails for full picture view
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