In this transplantation experiment, the recipient colony was orange (Panel A) and the donor colony was black, 4 months following transplantation of few cells from the donor colony EN, the recipient colony changed its pigmentation from orange to a mixed black and orange pigmentation (Panel B). The transplanted colony AFLPs genetic fingerprints at that time reflected the donor genotype (Panel C). D. AFLPs genetic fingerprints of recipient colony (R), donor colony (D) and the genetic fingerprints of the recipient colony 2–6 months following transplantation of few cells from the donor colony EN. Five months post transplantation the recipient colony became a chimera. ce-known chimera, numbers indicate number of months post transplantation, *-chimeric colony, arrows indicate AFLP’s markers which differ between the recipient and the donor colonies. Scale bar = 1mm