Pond Boss Forums INTRO Questions & Observations Nice pics of documented pumpkinseed hybrids

Cecil you are due credit for finding the info and posting it here "good work) even if the pics/text/info are from another site and person.

Bobad it depends. Here is why. The further apart the 2 parents genetics the greater the diversity of the genes and the more likely the Xs (assuming viability at all) will have increased heterozygosity leading to hybrid vigor followed by outbreeding depression (cause for non-true breeding). The problem is if the genes are real close (northern LMB and Fla LMB) they are often characterized as the same species (sub-species) and the offspring are not crosses in the common sense. Some studies argue that Fla and Nort LMB are different species but the gene difference (heterozygosity) is very small when compared to the difference between for example BG and GSF. Stated broadly "true breeding " fish populations are by definition (or consequence or necessity) the same species or very close ( much closer than the different lepomis).