knabe said:
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are there models that show the ability to take individuals with say an easily measurable reduction of markers in individuals with little overlap, and then combine them to reproduce an animal that has the macroset of markers and achieve the same results in the initially observed phenotype?
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it worries me that in identifying phenotypes that with elimination of genetic diversity through heavily marketed lines that important sources of diversity and desirable traits will be lost. no one that i know of has addressed this problem. "alternative alleles or genes for the same traits but perhaps with different pathways affecting the same trait but not yet stacked serendipitously or stacked through easy observation as it was low hanging fruit in heavily promoted bloodlines. too many times things have not been where we thought they were"
Knabe,
Would you please dumb down the first question so that I can see the picture better? I am getting a strong intuition that you are getting at something very interesting, but the gap between intuition and insight is making my imagination balk.
The second question:
How would one address this problem of recovering diversity, at home with no tools other than observation? Not exactly recovery; more like extinction intervention?
And what exactly do you mean here,
"alternative alleles or genes for the same traits but perhaps with different pathways affecting the same trait
but not yet stacked serendipitously or stacked through easy observation as it was low hanging fruit in heavily promoted bloodlines. too many times things have not been where we thought they were"
I am interpreting your remarks to suggest that something fixed in a certain bloodlines undoubtedly exists elsewhere with other associations understood, misunderstood and never to be understood. And we should look for those traits in other places,and save the seed, rather than just use the same set of instructions until they wear thin and mutate? Because genetic diversity is like the volume of a stream and we are carving a narrow channel that may become an empty canyon some day?
I believe this shaded stream bank is where most of my questions dwell, and I cannot almost see you pointing into the high branches of an old old tree for a single Fameuse Snow apple , but I am just not quite grasping it.
