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Here is the update on cross 5 in our breeding project towards fixing a white guppy color strain. This continues our set of backcrosses using the offspring from our original four females. We are slowly making progress towards understanding how to fix a singlecolor trait and strain.

Our starting male has an allwhite phenotype (platinum White/snow white/white moscow strain), can we restore this trait through multiple generations by starting with only females that don’t have this trait? In this fifth cross we start understanding the genes involved to make a guppy have a white phenotype.

Relevant genes:
Magenta: Alan Bias’s Incompletely Dominant Source (https://swordtailguppies.blogspot.com...)
Stoerzbach (Metallicus)
European Blau (See discussion on Asian Blau and Hellblau in cross 5 part 1 video)
Half black (Tuxedo/Nigrocaudatus I or II, See discussion on this gene in cross 4 video)

Citation to the chart listing guppy genes:
Bias, Alan & Groenewegen, Carl. (2016). Poecilia reticulata: Domestic Breeder Trait Matrix Reference Guide. https://www.academia.edu/29928596/Poe....

Helpful webpages with halfblack information:
1. https://www.emeraldkingaquatics.com/...
2. https://www.rudiesreflekties.be/HowTo...
Helpful book about guppy genetics:
The Guppy Color Bank by Philip Shaddock

0:00 Introduction
0:40 For Those That Are New
1:35 Cross 5 Recap
1:49 Cross 5 Guppy Totals
2:15 The Genes Involved
8:55 Involved Genes in the Context of My Guppies
17:25 Possible Ways I am Wrong
20:22 Wrapping Up
21:17 Outro

Music:
Sneaky Snooper by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

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Cross: 0005 2
SCAU: 728