Ducks and bibbed gene.

[Pyxis]

The pictures are reversed somehow.

In my article? Can you post a screenshot?

 

[Loopeend]

Wait.. so, writing up genetics.
You just say r+ when it is the 'natural' situation, and R when not. B+ when it is the natural situation, b when not. It all involves the natural situation.
Instead of rr or Rr or RR. Or BB or Bb or bb?

 

[Loopeend]

I thought I was crazy when presenting the no-eye stripe, yes-eye-stripe on the same coloured duck, since I was sure I saw one on the left side..

 

[Pyxis]

Wait.. so, writing up genetics.
You just say r+ when it is the 'natural' situation, and R when not. B+ when it is the natural situation, b when not. It all involves the natural situation.
Instead of rr or Rr or RR. Or BB or Bb or bb?

You'd still note both of the alleles present at that locus. So say a duck was homozygous for wildtype mallard, the M+ gene. You'd still write that as M+M+. The plus is just a part of how we write that particular allele out. If it was instead heterozygous for wildtype mallard and dusky, you'd write that as M+m^d. Does that make sense?

I thought I was crazy when presenting the no-eye stripe, yes-eye-stripe on the same coloured duck, since I was sure I saw on on the left side..

Ah, sorry, that duckling doesn't have an eye stripe, just a lot of dark stippling in the down right behind the eye. I should probably see if I can dig up a better picture of one of my snowy Call ducklings that doesn't look so much like it has an eye stripe, lol.

 

[Pyxis]

This is a better example of a snowy duckling lacking an eye stripe, but she's blue snowy, not regular snowy, so she's lighter overall:

 

[Loopeend]

I thought dusky's had the least eyestripes, and the right one looks more evened out then the left one.

 

[Loopeend]

This is a better example of a snowy duckling lacking an eye stripe, but she's blue snowy, not regular snowy, so she's lighter overall:

Yeah but the right one is not a duckling. And also an AAAAw.. melting.

 

[Pyxis]

I thought dusky's had the least eyestripes, and the right one looks more evened out then the left one.

You can click on those pictures to make them larger. The duck on the left has an eye stripe, and the duck on the right doesn't.

Edit: Wait a minute now I've confused myself. Let me go make sure I didn't reverse label those in the article. I think I did. Good typo catch, lol.

 

[Pyxis]

I thought dusky's had the least eyestripes, and the right one looks more evened out then the left one.

Okay good catch, that was a total typo in the article, lol. Neither me nor anyone else had caught that.

 

[Pyxis]

Yeah but the right one is not a duckling. And also an AAAAw.. melting.

Was it the adult you thought you saw the eye stripe on? Or the one on the left (the duckling)?