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ok, so...what will I get if I breed my 100% het albino female to a DH male sunglow het for anery?? will I get any albinos? or will it be a mix of sunglow and salmons...or am I way off on the whole thing?? (if you can tell i'm new to this whole genetics cross and hets and blah blah blah....=)
Thanx!! this forum rules!!

p.s.....what does 'dh' stand for??
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Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea.
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DH stands for "Double Heterozygous". I'll leave the rest of the answers to the pro breeders
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Lauren Madar
www.ophidiagems.com
1.1 Hog Island Boas
1.1 Hypo BCI
0.1 Sorong-type GTP
1.0 Normal Ball Python
1.1 Surinam BCC

Albino X DH sunglow would produce
1/4 sunglow
1/4 albino
1/4 Salmon het for Albino
1/4 het albino

and since the male is het for Anery, all the bebis=es woulod be 50% het for Anery which means they each have a 50/50 chance of getting one Anery gene.

>>ok, so...what will I get if I breed my 100% het albino female to a DH male sunglow het for anery?? will I get any albinos? or will it be a mix of sunglow and salmons...or am I way off on the whole thing?? (if you can tell i'm new to this whole genetics cross and hets and blah blah blah....=)
>>Thanx!! this forum rules!!
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>>p.s.....what does 'dh' stand for??
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>>Alone, alone, all, all alone. Alone on a wide, wide sea.
>>-Rime of the ancient Mariner
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB, selectively bred from good stock)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
13.26 BRB
11.16 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

>100% het albino female to a DH male sunglow het for anery

A DH (double heterozygous) sunglow het (heterozygous) for anerythristic has the following genes:
a salmon mutant gene paired with a normal gene
a normal gene paired with an albino mutant gene
a normal gene paired with an anerythristic mutant gene.
This snake could also be called het salmon, het albino, het anerythristic.

The 100% het albino female has the following genes:
two copies of the normal alternative to the salmon mutant gene
a normal gene paired with an albino mutant gene
two copies of the normal alternative to the anerythristic mutant gene.

And the expected statistical results are
1/16 salmon
1/16 salmon, het anerythristic
2/16 salmon, het albino
2/16 salmon, het albino, het anerythristic
1/16 salmon, albino (AKA sunglow)
1/16 salmon, albino (AKA sunglow), het anerythristic
1/16 normal
1/16 het anerythristic (looks normal)
2/16 het albino (looks normal)
2/16 het albino, het anerythristic (looks normal)
1/16 albino
1/16 albino, het anerythristic

Note that all the salmons have a salmon mutant gene paired with a normal gene (heterozygous salmon).

Unfortunately, in a mating like this, you can't tell the het albinos from the snakes with two copies of the normal alternative to the albino mutant gene. As both parents are het albino, the nonalbinos are often called 66% probability het albinos.

And in a mating like this, you can't tell the het anerythristics from the snakes with two copies of the normal alternative to the anerythristic mutant gene. As only one parent is het anerythristic, all of the babies could be called 50% probability het anerythristics.

Final result:
3/8 salmon, 66% probability het albino, 50% probability het anerythristic
1/8 salmon, albino (AKA sunglow), 50% probability het anerythristic
3/8 normal appearance, 66% probability het albino, 50% probability het anerythristic
1/8 albino, 50% probability het anerythristic

Hope this helps.

Paul Hollander

If it's a DH sunglow (hypo het for albino) het for anery, wouldn't that make it triple het?

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