Not sure on the specifics of your breeding, but if you were breeding heterozygous arabesque to a heterozygous arabesque, then you should expect normals.

In fact 25% of the litter should statistically be normals. At the same time 25% of them should be supers(homozygous).
At this point nothing is proven. There are two ways to prove out the genetics ...
1. You have some visually different individuals in the litter from your arabesque x arabesque breeding. You should then take that individual and breed it to a normal wild type. If the result of that litter is ALL (100%) arabesques (they would all be heterozygous) then you have proven the trait to be co-dominant.

2. You have no visually different individuals in the litter from your arabesque x arabesque breeding. You breed some of the offspring to a normal wild type boa and hopefully you picked one that happened to be homozygous. If the resulting litter is half arabesque half normal, you picked a heterozygous arabesque from the first litter and wasted some time. If the resulting litter is 100% arabesque (they would be heterozygous) then you have proven the trait to be dominant.

I would like to be involved in this personally, but will probably not be able to work with arabesques hands on until I am sucessful with my hypos. That probably wont be for another 2 years so I have to imagine that the genetics will be proven by then.
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- Jason F.

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• Arabesque X Arabesque,,,let,s make some? - toine, Wed Dec 13 15:45:58 2006
• RE: Arabesque X Arabesque,,,let,s make some? - AndreasE, Wed Dec 13 16:47:34 2006
• RE: Arabesque X Arabesque,,,let,s make some? - jayf, Wed Dec 13 18:27:38 2006
• Heck yeah..... - sun_king, Thu Dec 14 07:00:43 2006