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dustyrhoads
at Fri Feb 6 16:01:02 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by dustyrhoads ]
Hi Jon,
Interesting topic you brought up. And awesome-looking snakes you have. IMO, I believe that this would be a simple recessive morph for a couple of reasons. First, Ric got all of his Anerys from breeding Hets to Hets. This would make both mine and your generic (non-anery) snakes from that line only 66% possible Hets.
The other reason why I think these are caused by homozygosity for a simple recessive allele is because loss-of-function mutations are usually recessive. In other words, amorphic mutations like amelanistic, anerythristic, axanthic, etc. are typically recessive, whereas just the opposite -- gain-of-function mutations -- like melanistic, erythristic, xanthic, or some new funky over-expressed pattern are often dominant.
I agree that there could be some sort of 'paradox-type' linkage (or should I say 'leakage'?), and that happens all the time with recessive morphs too. I'm a bit more inclined to think they're just normals with very little orange.
This poss. Het anery male below, like yours, looks a lot like the Het male that sired all the anerys.
Dusty
Suboc.com
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RE: Please post Anery and Hypo pics - dustyrhoads, Fri Feb 6 16:01:02 2009