Chocolate Black
Non-wild alleles that interact to form this phenotype:
Dark (D), Smokey
(Sm)
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A
chocolate black has two alleles for dark (black) and two alleles for
smokey. The black pigment almost completely masks the expression of the
smokey alleles. The genotype of a chocolate black is:
D/D
– Sm/Sm.
A
hybrid chocolate black is similar in appearance. If it contains an allele
for gold marble or for marble, the underlying darker marbled pattern may
be seen under a bright light. Hybrid chocolate blacks will have one of
these genotypes:
D/g
– Sm/Sm
D/Gm – Sm/Sm
D/M – Sm/Sm
Approved by The Angelfish
Society Standards Committee on May 14, 2007.
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