>I'll go so far to say that Hypos are an incomplete dominant, but I can't believe that they're a co-dom. They're just not distinct enough to be able to seperate them with certainty.
At the level we are on, incomplete dominant and codominant mean the same thing. I prefer codominant only because it has fewer characters to type.

I've only touched one hypo and never owned one. The breeders who post here say that the two types can't be separated with certainty. That makes hypo a dominant mutant gene, even if it isn't a textbook perfect example of a dominant mutant.

I can say a number of good things about Russo's Complete Boa Constrictor book, but not about the genetics chapter. He makes most of the same mistakes that I see on herper web sites. He also says that a dominant hypo has two hypo genes and a codominant hypo has a hypo gene paired with a normal gene. Very sad!

Paul Hollander

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