Blue lobsters are the result of a genetic mutation in which the inability to produce yellow and red pigment in the shell results in a partial albino. Approximately 1 in 50 million occur.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
For Paul McCarthy--Blue Lobster (Homarus americanus)
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Wade G. Burck
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Wade-Thanks for this. I actually wondered whether those frogs at the San Diego Zoo were just unable to produce pigment which normally combined with yellow to make green. Which zoo did you work for in Florida?
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