Black + White

[nonagonX]

Hello! Ive played with thi bug for a while, and I dont know if anyone has reported it. I got an albino creature which had melanism ressesive. Then I got a melanisim creature with albino resessive. I bred them and their children all had albino and melanism. I dont know what would happen if that happened in real life, i just finished my first year od biology. Maybe for an easter egg it can be a half black half white creature? It sounds kind of childish, but whatever.

[HighlyIllogical]

It seems interesting, its definitely possible genetically although it probably wouldn't be caused by having albinism and melanism, I'm not sure what the condition is called but I've seen animals with markings similar to what your talking about, search up "Venus the cat" and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[xXocea]

Originally posted by HighlyIllogical:

It seems interesting, its definitely possible genetically although it probably wouldn't be caused by having albinism and melanism, I'm not sure what the condition is called but I've seen animals with markings similar to what your talking about, search up "Venus the cat" and you'll see what I'm talking about.

What your referring to is Chimerism. It's when two fetus' fuse together in the womb. It happens in humans as well as other animals!! Most male calico's are actually chimera's. Venus the cat is a Chimera.


@WarriorCatsWin
I've seemed to come across the same thing. I have a male with both recessive albinism and melanism. I bred him to a albino-carrying female. (Had no intent of getting albino's or malanistic creatures, I just saw different immunities and bred without thinking twice) Their first kids were twins and pretty normal. (I didn't check if they carried the recessive albino ect. I kinda rejected them LOL. But they were outwardly normal.)

However their next birth was much more surprising. I had a melanistic albino. Dominant in both melanism AND albinism. Something I don't think you've achieved yet?? You only mentioned recessive genes. (Unless I read totally wrong, I'm going a bit fast)

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=933555708

Her name was Anasi.

[Eikthyrnir]

Well we have found out what happens :) I believe melanism is dominant to albinism (because melanism is adaptive and albinism is unwanted as it causes health problems)

[nonagonX]

@rebelliouswinter

No, I have not acheived that yet. But when I bred, they had melanism and albinism (mind you this was in the jungle update) and nothing happened. Perhaps the creators made melanism dominant? I might try to test this out more in the future

[nonagonX]

Also, thank you for all the comments!

[Rho]

@WarriorCatsWin

In terms of biology, albinism is the state in which melanin is not present. Melanism in the game results in an overexpression of melanin. When you combine the two, which one will be "dominant" on a molecular level? The melanistic gene will be dominant because we have a null mutation (albinism) with a mutation that overproduces melanism.
So that's a theory why melanism is dominant in the game.

If you take more Biology, you may find that epistatic interactions between genes are not always the way they interact here in the game, especially regarding this albinism and melanism interaction, i.e., one gene will keep the phenotype that it displays, even if a similar gene for the same characteristic is present. A specific example is eye colour in Drosophila melanogaster, but that's another story for another time.