It was in 1997 when Dr. Raul W. Ponzoni of the South Australian Research and Development
Institute released his paper titled "Phenotypes Resulting From Huacaya by Huacaya,
Suri by Huacaya and Suri by Suri Alpaca Crossings", stunning the alpaca industry.
He wrote it together with D.J. Hubbard, R.V. Kenyon, C.D. Tuckwell, B.A. McGregor,
and G.J. Judson, and made the amazing claim that "The results indicated control by
a single gene (or by an haplotype), and dominance of the allele responsible for the
suri type (AlFs) over that responsible for the huacaya type (AlFh)." Read more