| I ain't talking about "fish" I am talking about carp/koi.
the only way i can explain that cloned fish don't have the same pattern is to theorize that the color and pattern are set/determined in the egg....
In the situation you are talking about the pattern could somehow be set in the first minutes after being expelled from the female. BUT I seriously doubt it. If koi twins were identical I would believe what I have thought is not how pattern and color are set.
I also believe that different colors are set at different times ....look at the Checkerboard pattern that is a characteristic of sumi in Showa,,,and compare that to hi patterns...i never see a checkerboard hi pattern...not that I can remember. There might be a pic out there. But his pattern must be set at a different time ( this adds credence to the color cells developing in different layers). |