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tim5580
at Wed Oct 13 12:16:49 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by tim5580 ]
I hear everyone talk about the giants, but how big do they get adult size? I want a 6 foot leopard gecko!
>>The latest news from ron trempers newsletter "In the last years many of you that obtained
>>my gene for Giant leopard geckos have produced
>>offspring that are Giant in size from breeding one of
>>my Giants to a gecko(s) that does not carry the gene
>>for Giant.
>>Five such people have asked me if there was a chance
>>that my gene for Giant was CO-DOMINANT.
>>My answer has been, up to now, that the Giant gene
>>was a simple recessive trait.
>>The first "hets" I made were few in number and once I got pure
>>Giants it was not needed to produce more such hets here.
>>Since many more "hets" were being produced by other
>>breeders, than I produced as a simple step to get the original
>>pure Giants, I decided to "redo" this "het" step and create a far more
>>larger group of geckos to study at my end.
>>I wanted to see what others were reporting.
>>My new findings reflect that in fact my Giant gene is a
>>true CO-DOMINANT.
>>This means that the Giant gene has an equal chance of
>>being expressed when combined with the gene to be a normal
>>sized gecko.
>>Hence, only one Giant parent needs to be present to express
>>this Giantism in the first generation.
>>I thank everyone that raised this important question.
>>Science is great stuff........the book chapter on genetics will go into
>>all the morphs in detail." (qoute from Ron Trempers e-mail newsletter)
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