Thanks for the explanation, Tony & TC.
At least now it makes sense.
I'd wondered about the info I had, but it came from an 'expert', so I figured it
should be right, but somehow didn't make sense.
This person implied that the genetics explanations used the term 'look normal'
to refer to the dominant colour in the crosses. Normal, could be the wild type
colours, or whichever was more dominant of the two colours being crossed. More
dominant? Got me thinking.
Don't laugh, but .... according to what I'd been told, if you crossed, as an
example, a normal and albino, the hets would look normal, since it's dominant
over albino. No problems there. But, taking 'recessive' traits like albino and
patternless, you'd get hets that look patternless, since according to this
source, patternless is dominant over albino. The 'look normal' hets would in
this case be patternless carrying albino genes. What really got me suspicious
was the suggestion that 'two equally recessive' traits (whatever that term
means), would fight it out. The topper was that in this case, blizzard and
albino, both being 'equally recessive', the daughters would be whatever the
mother is, the sons take after father, but all would carry the other parent's
genes. Once I heard that, I just knew something wasn't right.
This expert also said that all the normal looking hets I'd seen had to have been
normal X somethings, to have the offspring with normal colours. Albino X
patternless would have been patternless coloured hets.
Live and learn. huh?
> That's how you might get a het for
> patternless/blazing/avocado/samurai/stapler leopard gecko :)
Sounds like you're describing a vibrant green coloured patternless 'hot female'
who glues her eggs to the nesting box.
I've also heard rumours that someone is working on a deep purple leopard, not
just lavender. Since it's from the same expert I mentioned, should I take that
with a grain of salt? I'm a purple addict, so I'd really love to know this
tidbit of info is real.
Hilde
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