High Number of Healthy Albino Green Turtles from Africa's Largest Population

The largest number of albino hatchlings reported from a single clutch was of 29 (including dead embryos and dead-in-shell hatchlings), from Juno Beach, Florida (Perrault & Coppenrath 2019). In the context of the Brazilian loggerhead albinos, Godfrey & Mrosovsky (1995) suggested that "if (...) albinism is caused by a single locus homozygous recessive allele, a cross between two heterozygous parents would result in 25 % of the offspring having an albino phenotype." First approximation to congenital malformation rates in embryos and hatchlings of sea turtles. A developmental analysis of periodic albinism in the amphibian Xenopus laevis.