| | | | | | Photo Gallery 1 | | | |  |  |  | | | | | An albino cockatiel has the PHENOTYPE (appearance) of an albino. It has all white feathers, pink feet, red eyes, and no cheek patch. Sounds like an albino to me! But the reason it APPEARS to be an albino is that it is really a combination of the sex-linked mutation, Lutino, which "hides" the melanin pigment (gray, cinnamon, silver, etc.), and the autosomal recessive mutation, whiteface, which "hides" the lipochrome (yellow and orange) pigments.
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This is a bird is created without pigmentation, and
appears to be albino. GENETICALLY, this is NOT AN ALBINO....it is a Lutino-Whiteface. It is a COMBINATION OF TWO MUTATIONS, not its own true mutation. The so-called "albino" cannot pass along ONE GENE to produce another albino. Instead, one sex-linked gene and one recessive gene are passed to the offspring. | |
