I love the topic of genetics. Mainly I love learning. It would be interesting if KS had a genetics forum. The topic floats here and there thru other forums. But it may be interesting to see herp people explain how the terms are used. I don't think there is really a true standard of usage across other critters? Like Co Dom for boas may mean something and maybe for birds it MAY mean something else.

While on the subject, how close, or hard is it for gene mapping for herps? I can see some day a DNA sample may prove lineage for herps. Very cool to think about IMO.


>>Thank you kindly Tom!
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>>lets not forget these types of traits in all snakes may also be controlled by being multi-allelic. Just to make things more confusing lol. Plus when I spoke to my college professor, which i took a genetics class, she laid a list of other situations even more complicated.
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>>You are absolutely correct! There are many traits that are far more complicated than we currently comprehend, but many are prone to declaring traits and/or morphologies as simple Mendelian genetics based on just F1s or F2s when in actuality, there could be a lot more at play. Only years of selective breeding, research and above all, prudence, will gain a true understanding of how a lot of these traits work and what they actually are.
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>>Thanks for adding further insight to such a complicated and often misunderstood topic!
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Thanks for reading.
Tom

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