The vast majority of albino African cichlids, are hybrids, at least those that are related to cichlids found in the Rift Lakes.
Make no mistake I am no geneticist, but I find it fascinating that African cichlids are the only ones that humans can or have attempted to hybridized and create an individual expressing albinism.
It makes my wheels turn and makes me think that when the continents broke apart that individuals that carried this gene were stranded so to speak or isolated from the others that would soon become the Americas.
Now what about Madagascan or Indian cichlids...we've probably never seen one of those expressing albinism.
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