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geckomill
at Mon Jul 28 18:08:36 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by geckomill ]
This does remind me however of a compatibility issue with leopard gecko genetics. Ron Tremper published similar results as i had where when you breed a blizzard to an albino(both recessive) you get double het albino blizzards. But, when you breed the offspring you should statistically hatch 1/16 double homozygous albino blizzards. Ron did many of these breedings and averaged only 1/64 albino blizzards from double het pairings. I thought this was weird and dismissed it as bad odds despite his large scale testings. I bred an albino blizzard to 3 female double hets last year where the resulting offspring should have been 1/4 normal, 1/4 albino, 1/4 blizzard, and 1/4 albino blizzard. I got 60 eggs and hatched 1 normal, 2 albino blizzards, and the rest were albino or blizzard. All i can think is that for some reason the combinations of genes seem to repel each other somehow. I'll bet that through future breedings there will be normals and hypo motleys born from hypo motley x normal pairings, they will will just be fewer than statistically expected for reasons i cant explain
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RE: Motley genetics.... - geckomill, Mon Jul 28 18:08:36 2008