This persons logic is a little off, but genetics can be tricky. Sometimes
there may be two genes on separate alleles that both influence the physical
representation of a trait. They compete over which traits may show. This
is not the rule though, and does not apply to most of the characteristics
that we've discussed(as far as science knows....got to put in the
disclaimer.) Some genes are in fact sex-linked (boys may have and girls
don't) and this is easily seen by the color differences in some species,
but this usually doesn't apply to albinism and the others.
Glad you liked my new designer morph. Hitting stores this spring in a
town near you :).
A deep purple lizard would be something. I've always wanted to breed a
solid black leopard gecko. No luck as of yet though :(. Maybe the "Onyx
leopard gecko" or the "Coal leopard gecko?" TC
At 12:52 PM 12/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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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