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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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- TREMPER GIANTS CO-DOMINANT! - thekidgecko, Tue Oct 12 21:55:25 2004
 RE: TREMPER GIANTS CO-DOMINANT! - tim5580, Wed Oct 13 12:16:49 2004- RE: TREMPER GIANTS CO-DOMINANT! - milwaukeereptile, Wed Oct 13 12:21:12 2004
- Sucks for a lot of people..... - gecko_den, Wed Oct 13 12:23:30 2004
- RE: Sucks for a lot of people..... - duckofdomination, Wed Oct 13 13:45:11 2004
- Wow those are cool - tim5580, Wed Oct 13 14:24:10 2004
- i think it is just dominant............ - lilroach56, Wed Oct 13 15:04:21 2004
- LOL Good Lord! What would you feed a 6 ft leo? - mmfrankford, Wed Oct 13 15:10:51 2004
- RE: LOL Good Lord! What would you feed a 6 ft leo? - tim5580, Wed Oct 13 15:42:41 2004
- RE: i think it is just dominant............ - tim5580, Wed Oct 13 15:52:54 2004
- i can help you.............. - lilroach56, Wed Oct 13 16:12:52 2004
- I wonder if Giants have any problems due to their genetics... - elcheal, Wed Oct 13 16:24:07 2004
- There actually are some. - xelda, Wed Oct 13 17:29:31 2004
- ya but are those of giant lineage....... - lilroach56, Wed Oct 13 17:33:33 2004
- RE: i can help you.............. - tim5580, Wed Oct 13 18:03:22 2004
- RE: i can help you.............. - thekidgecko, Wed Oct 13 18:52:05 2004
- RE: i can help you.............. - lilroach56, Wed Oct 13 18:54:38 2004
- RE: I wonder if Giants have any problems due to their genetics... - marty_gecko, Wed Oct 13 20:50:50 2004
- Yes. n/p - xelda, Thu Oct 14 16:54:51 2004
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