Re: [RML] RML: "help" ?

Doug Karpa-Wilson (dkarpawi at indiana.edu)
Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:51:49 -0500

>On 6 Jun 2001, at 17:48, Danny wrote:
>
>> With approx 100 species and possibly 100's of colour morphs naturally, Why
>> would anyone want to hybridise them?
>
>Beat me. I don't like the idea of hybridizing fish or anything at all
>but I'm just as against destroying it because of its history.

I think the issue is that hybrids can always be made, but never unmade, so
as it is in the absence of new collections everything will end up as
hybrids. Also, if hybrids are backcrossed, you may end up with hybrids
that get mistakenly passed off as the pure strain and then the pure strain
will become quickly compromised because of the error.

They are the thin end of the wedge.

Doug

Doug Karpa-Wilson
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