1/30/2021: Death by isopod: Culture compendium 1

Isopod culture re-dos are chugging along and I finally have some names and descriptions for projects! I’ll be adding more of these lists as work continues, but here are the spoils for now:

Proven lines (breed true within their descriptions) in their final analysis phases and slated for release soon:

–Porcellio scaber “Magma” (“Lava” selections for nearly to full body orange, multi-gene)

–Porcellio scaber “Obsidian” (“Lava” selection for solid dark grey body, dom or codom)

–Porcellio scaber “Maize” (Simple recessive, pale yellow individuals from stock originating at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor “Big House” stadium)

–Porcellio scaber “Blacktail” (“Lava” selection for dark pigment blotch on the pleon, possible co-dom with multi-gene regulators)

–Porcellio scaber “Freckles” (US locality cross for light grey, peppered yellow adults; males with light phenotype but not as expressive as the females, multi-gene)

–Porcellio scaber “Ashes” (“Orange Embers” to US locality cross, gradient of light gray to dark gray front to back, multi-gene; proven if recessive orange can be bred out)

–Porcellio scaber “Orange-Eyed White” (Derived from a possibly compromised “Orange Dalmatian” line; body solid white with minimal yellowing with age and orange to rufous eyes, multi-gene)

–Porcellio scaber “Stardust” (Spanish stock with pale to hay yellow bodies and light gray flecks, multi-gene)

–Venezillo parvus “Orange” (potentially multi-gene orange body with red highlights)

Ongoing projects at various stages of consistency and/or heritability testing:

–Porcellio scaber “Lavender” (pale greyish purple body coloration derived from US lines; NOT “Ghost”)

–Porcellio scaber “Bonemeal” (“Koi” x “Piebald” cross bred selected for high white and brown)

–Porcellio scaber “Clean Slate” (“Livonia” locality bred for no simple recessive genes or calico chracteristics; solid gray)

–Porcellio laevis “Brown Tort” (milky brown whole boy coloration with white highlights)

–Cubaris murina Red cheeks project (red color near the head and on the tail)

–Cubaris murina light project (light caramel body color, could be of use for making a white “Papaya”

–Armadillidium depressum Gestroi lookalike (similar color and markings to A. gestroi)

–Armadillidium klugii “Montenegro” colorful project (increase body color contrast, larger yellow spots)

–Armadillidium klugii “Montenegro” red, white, and black project (no yellow coloration)

–Armadillidium depressum black project (solid body color)

–Armadillidium depressum high color project (large spots of yellow or green)

–Armadillidium depressum hypo project (light coloration all around)

Proven lines and species ready for release:

–Armadillidium sp. “Marblized”

–Armadillidium klugii “Dubrovnik”

–Venezillo parvus “Dalmatian”

–Platyarthrus hoffmannseggii

–Platyarthrus aiasensis

–Nagurus cristatus

–Androniscus sp. (sold a while ago as dentiger)

–Rhyscotus texensis

–Cubaris murina “Papaya”

–Armadillidium maculatum “Candy Stripes”

–Porcellio scaber “US Orange”

–Armadillidium peraccae

–Armadillidium frontirostre

–Armadillidium depressum

–Armadillidium depressum “Highcliffe”

–Porcellio laevis “Arizona Giant” (Red Rock locale)

–Armadillo officinalis “Sicily”

–Cubaris sp. “Blonde Ducky”

–Cubaris sp. “Platin, Tung Song”

–Cubaris sp. “Panda King”

Some down, a lot more to go.

-Kyle