understanding genetics and morphs

[pinefamily]

When people here in Oz talk about jags, it's crossbreeding, not colour morphs.
And when I referred to side issues, I meant the high incidence of neurological issues that jags have; as far as I am aware this does not happen with the naturally occurring coastal/diamond intergrades.

[Aaron_S]

Originally Posted by pinefamily

When people here in Oz talk about jags, it's crossbreeding, not colour morphs.
And when I referred to side issues, I meant the high incidence of neurological issues that jags have; as far as I am aware this does not happen with the naturally occurring coastal/diamond intergrades.

Interesting. I'm not sure why that slang changed with continents but it's wrong and confusing since there's a mutation called Jaguar. Is it even in Australia? I know it originated in Europe.

Well many intergrades happen and there's no issues. I don't see the connection to jaguar though. Reason being, if you use the definition of jag as you described then you're saying all the crosses have issues. In my experience that isn't the case.

However, if you use the jag definition of morph then sure your comment makes sense since jaguars apparently have some neuro issues that come along with the mutation.

Also, the issues have no real ground in the intergrading of subspecies. It has to do again with understanding genetics and what causes the visual mutations. It means somewhere in the genetic code it's "broken" and sometimes other things break that aren't pattern/colour. How we end up with the defects like neurological issues.