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Ultramel
The genetics behind this morph may be difficult to
understand.  Ultramels are the result of combining two co
dominant genes...ultra hypomelanism and amelanism.  Both
genes are recessive and are located at the same locus, and,
when in their homozygous form, create the ultra hypo and
amel morphs.  If a homozygous ultra hypo and homozygous
amel are bred together, the resulting offspring will get an
ultra gene from one parent and an amel gene from the
other.  Since they are located at the same locus, both genes
will be partially expressed in the resulting offspring.  These
offspring will have an appearance half-way between an
ultra hypo and an amel.  When two ultramels are bred
together, the resulting offspring will be in the ratio of 1/4
homozygous ultra hypos, 1/4 homozygous amels, and 1/2
ultramels.