so, the hypo/salmon gene is just "dominant"!? If it was a simple dominant then an animal would either be hypo/salmon, or not. And it would either pass it on, or not. There would be no such thing as a "super salmon" with extra markers (more reduced pattern) than a regular salmon. An animal that is hypo/salmon WILL show it. Cannot hide. that makes it appear to be a "dominant" trait. But in reality, it is more like a co-dominant... Genetic inheritance of co-dominant genes works in essentially the same manner as genetic inheritance in simple recessive genes, except for the fact that heterozygous animals are visibly different than normals. These visible "hets" can be bred together to produce an even more extreme variation of the mutation, often called a "Super." The "Super" is a dominant form of a co-dominant gene, and can be bred to a normal animal to produce entire clutches of the visible het, or co-dominant form. Examples of co-dominant traits are arabesque, hypomelanistic, salmon, jungle, motley, and pastel.

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• boa genetics - carpetguy, Mon Sep 11 09:33:38 2006
• RE: boa genetics - Paul Hollander, Mon Sep 11 13:29:57 2006
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• And is much more difficult to..... - rainbowsrus, Mon Sep 11 16:25:49 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - snakehorse, Mon Sep 11 17:00:06 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - rainbowsrus, Mon Sep 11 17:54:53 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - Paul Hollander, Mon Sep 11 18:06:01 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - carpetguy, Mon Sep 11 18:16:33 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - carpetguy, Mon Sep 11 18:48:00 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - Paul Hollander, Mon Sep 11 19:46:53 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - Paul Hollander, Mon Sep 11 19:09:30 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - carpetguy, Tue Sep 12 03:48:12 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - rainbowsrus, Tue Sep 12 09:41:03 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - Paul Hollander, Tue Sep 12 18:14:24 2006
• RE: okay... now I'm really confused - carpetguy, Tue Sep 12 19:07:25 2006
• Are you sure............................ - vcaruso15, Tue Sep 12 19:22:12 2006
• RE: Are you sure........................ - Paradigmboas, Wed Sep 13 03:05:26 2006
• Couldn't have said it better myself. n/p - Paul Hollander, Wed Sep 13 13:16:25 2006