Zebra 1983

[Jesper Sahu]

Zebrais the debut studio album by American hard rock band Zebra, released on March 25, 1983, by Atlantic Records. The album features all original material, with the exception of "Slow Down" (a Larry Williams tune best remembered for a 1964 cover version by the Beatles) injected at mid-song with much of the second stanza of Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes", altered at its end:

The album also features two hits which received national airplay: "Who's Behind the Door?" and "Tell Me What You Want". On the strength of both singles the album became one of Atlantic's fastest-selling debut albums ever[2] and peaked at #29, attaining a level of commercial success the band was unable to repeat on subsequent releases.

The Andy Warhol Endangered Species series is a collection of 10 silk-screened prints created by the famous American artist Andy Warhol in 1983. The series was commissioned by Ronald and Frayda Feldman, who were art collectors and environmental activists. The prints were intended to raise awareness about the plight of endangered animals and to highlight the importance of conservation efforts.

Each of the 10 prints in the series features a different endangered animal. The subjects include the Siberian Tiger, Black Rhinocerous, Bighorn Ram, Grevy's Zebra, Orangutan, Silverspot Butterfly, Pine Barrens Tree Frog, African Elephant, and Giant Panda.

Warhol created the Endangered Species series at a time when the world was becoming increasingly aware of the dangers facing many animal species. Through his art, Warhol aimed to draw attention to the urgent need for conservation and preservation efforts to protect these animals and their habitats.

The prints in the series are visually striking, featuring bright, bold colors and strong graphic images that are characteristic of Warhol's signature pop-art style. They are considered some of the most iconic works in Warhol's oeuvre and have become highly sought-after by collectors and art enthusiasts alike.

Andy Warhol's Pop Art legacy continues to inspire various forms of contemporary aesthetic expression. Our collection of hand-signed Warhol screen prints includes pop art subjects of Mick Jagger, Mickey Mouse, Superman, Moonwalk, Flowers, Marilyn Monroe, Mao, Cow, and Campbell's Soup, and are of higher collectible value due to their distinct color variations and one-of-a-kind nature.

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My seven 1982 FAMA articles on angelfish genetics covered the mutant genes that are present in today's commercially-bred angelfish. Combinations of two mutant genes also were discussed and illustrated.

Some phenotypes have been named, such as black lace, black, marble, ghost, blushing, smokey, chocolate, gold, zebra, zebra lace, blue, butterfly and cobra. Additional phenotypes that are seen occasionally are blushing marble, blushing smokey, blushing chocolate, blushing new gold (white), and several others that are less distinctive, such as several combinations with zebra. It is understandable that no names have been applied to the many phenotypes that are not easily distinguishable from others. In fact it is not uncommon to encounter an angelfish that must be tested genetically, by appropriate crosses, to discover its complete genotype, even though it is usually possible to discern part of its genotype from its appearance.

A distinctive angelfish that has not been named is one for which I propose the name "clown" angelfish, the subject of this article. This fish, having a bold and striking blotched pattern on the body, is actually a modified zebra lace, either with, or without, a single dose of stripeless. Its fins are like the fins of a zebra lace. The front of the adult's body is speckled with black dots and its ventral fins are horizontally banded with light and dark.

Over the years I had noticed that the zebra lace (having zebra plus one dose of dark) angelfish may produce offspring in which all of the zebra lace individuals have three straight, uniform, dark, vertical body stripes (Fig. 1 left). Occasionally I saw zebra lace with crooked or broken body stripes, but I did not have records of their parentage. More recently, Bill Lutz found, and gave me some zebra lace with irregular markings instead of three stripes on the body. I raised these to maturity and kept one pair. These were tested by crossing each with wild-type (silver). The female produced 267, all either zebra or zebra lace.

The male (Fig. 2 right) produced 330, all either zebra or zebra lace. Thus, both of these zebra lace with irregular markings were homozygous (double-dose) for zebra, and heterozygous (single-dose) for dark. All of the offspring had irregular markings, varying from slightly irregular or broken three stripes to blotched, with little or no striped pattern, in some of the zebra lace. Since all of the irregulary-marked offspring were heterozygous (single-dose) zebras, I concluded that irregular marking in zebra lace is not a result of homozygous, rather than heterozygous, zebra.

Although every one of the offspring of irregular zebra lace x wild-type (silver) had irregular markings, none of the zebras had as bizarre markings as the most blotched of the zebra lace. The zebras all had vertical stripes, sometimes broken and sometimes with one or more partial stripes.

While many of the zebra lace had irregular stripes like the zebras, some had very interesting blotches and spots. Those that had the most blotches and the least striping were saved for future breeders, examples of which are illustrated in Figs. 3-7. These will be bred brother to sister to find out whether the percent of blotched offspring can be increased in that way.

The problem in trying to produce clown angelfish from parents like I used, crossed with silver, is that many of their offspring have uneven stripes instead of large blotches. Those with uneven stripes are too similar to zebra lace to deserve being called clown angelfish. This problem was solved, rather by accident, by Bill Lutz, who had kept some irregularly-marked zebra lace when he gave me some. In an attempt to eventually produce some "purple" angelfish (blushing black), Mr. Lutz first crossed a zebra lace female, which happened to be one with irregular markings, with a blushing male. Some of the offspring from this cross were zebra butterfly (one dose each of zebra, dark and stripeless), which I discussed, along with butterfly, in Part Four (August, 1982) of my angelfish genetics series.

I had found that adding zebra to butterfly increases the number of dark blotches on the body. Butterfly has one or sometimes two or three dark blotches, while zebra butterfly (Fig. 8) has additional dark blotches. The interesting and useful outcome of the cross by Mr. Lutz was not that he got some zebra butterflys, which were expected, but that every one of these had more dark blotches on the body than any zebra butterflys that I had seen.

In fact, his zebra butterflys were so hightly blotched (Fig. 9) that most of them appeared indistinguishable from blotched zebra lace. Although the genetics of the irregularly-marked zebra lace and the highly-blotched zebra butterfly has not been investigated, it appears to be a possibility that the genetic modification that causes irregular markings in zebra lace may also be responsible for increased blotching in zebra butterfly.

A clown angelfish is either a zebra lace or zebra butterfly that is genetically modified, resulting in large blotches on the body. The best method of producing clown angelfish, at least until more is known, probably is to cross a clown angelfish with a blushing. You will not get all clown offspring, but you also will get no striped individuals. If you happen to have a clown parent like one of my original pair (one dose of dark and two doses of zebra), you may get about 50% clown offspring because all of the offspring will receive one dose of zebra and one dose of stripeless, and half of them will receive one dose of dark. If your clown parent happens to be like the type produced by Mr. Lutz (one dose each of dark, zebra and stripeless), you will get more types of offspring, including blushing. I would not breed clown to clown for commercial production, because this mating will produce some offspring without the gene for stripeless, and these could be striped instead of blotched.

At this point, the unknown in breeding clown angelfish is the genetics of the irregular marking. If, for example, a single recessive modifier is involved, you would get no clown angelfish from the above two crosses if the blushing parent does not carry the recessive gene. If a single dominant modifier is needed to get the clown pattern, then your chances are better for these two crosses. If you get no clowns from clown x blushing, then I would cross the offspring having zebra and dark (either zebra lace or zebra butterfly) back with clown. I hope that the genetics of the modifier(s) will be worked out so that exact instructions for breeding clown angelfish will be possible.

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