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Another genetic question!?

cornsnake234 Aug 19, 2003 01:13 PM

What kind of baby corn would i get by breeding an hypo with an anery!?

thx

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Klyk Aug 19, 2003 01:38 PM

If they don't have any hidden heterozygous genes, you would get all normals that would be heterozygous for Ghost.

Klyk

cornsnake234 Aug 19, 2003 02:03 PM

So i would not have hypo and anery!? only normal and few gost!?

I buy them at the pet store, so i don't know what kind of corn was their parents.

Klyk Aug 19, 2003 02:39 PM

Basically, you would get all normal looking cornsnakes. However, all those normal snakes would posess the genes that would allow them to make ghost babies if they were bred together. On the other hand, if either one of your snakes has any hidden genes, you might end up with a few hypo or anery babies.

Klyk

cornsnake234 Aug 19, 2003 02:52 PM

Hypo are produced by which kind of corn!?

And, another question, can you tell me if this young anery is type A or type B!? or maybe he is too young?
If he is type A anery, would it give also only normal and gost!? and same if he is a type B!?

thx

pinatamonkey Aug 19, 2003 03:16 PM

>>Hypo are produced by which kind of corn!?
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>>And, another question, can you tell me if this young anery is type A or type B!? or maybe he is too young?
>>If he is type A anery, would it give also only normal and gost!? and same if he is a type B!?
>>
>>thx
>>

Hypo is it's own gene, so hypos are produced by well, hypos.

It looks like an anery A...
The offspring of it and a hypo would be normals het anery, het hypo (aka het ghost).
The second generation (the offspring of the normals het ghost) could be normals, hypos, anerys, and ghosts.

If it's anery B (aka charcoal) the results are pretty much the same, with charcoal and charcoal ghost being produced instead of anery and ghost.
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cornsnake234 Aug 19, 2003 04:43 PM

Hey thanks!! Where did you learn all of this!?

Last questions, you said that this is an anery type A, does it mean he would have yellow on the neck when he would get older!?

And, what mean "het" and "aka"!?

pinatamonkey Aug 19, 2003 07:44 PM

>>Hey thanks!! Where did you learn all of this!?
>>
>>Last questions, you said that this is an anery type A, does it mean he would have yellow on the neck when he would get older!?
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>>And, what mean "het" and "aka"!?
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Both anery a and b can have yellow on the neck, but it doesn't seem to be as common in b.

Het = heterozygous = carrying one copy of a recessive gene. A recessive gene needs 2 copies to be expressed. When the snake has only one copy it will look normal but be a carrier for the gene and is able to pass that gene on to it's offspring.

aka = also known as. Since an animal expressing anery and hypo at the same time is a ghost, a snake het for both anery and hypo can also be called het ghost (double het ghost since there's 2 genes involved). The snake will be able to produce hypos and anerys along with ghosts.

Anery b is known as charcoal.
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cornsnake234 Aug 19, 2003 09:12 PM

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