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I have very little understanding as far as genetics goes...

I am a high school senior first off, so the miniscule section on genetics in biology 2 years ago definately didn't make me an expert!

But, as far as color morphs in boas go...there are basically 3 genes:

Albino
Anery
Hypo

In turn, these genes, when combined give us:

Snow - (Albino Anery)
Ghost - (Hypo Anery)
Moonglow- (hypo anery albino)
Sunglow- (hypo albino)

My question is, Do i have the basic understanding down...or am i completely off target?

Just something i was pondering this morning
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1.1.0 Hogg Island Boa
0.1.0 Albino Columbian Boa
0.1.0 Unknown Locality Boa
1.0.0 Carpet Python
1.0.0 Normal Ball Python
1.0.0 Red Albino Cornsnake
0.1.0 Leucistic Rat Snake
1.0.0 Water Dragon
1.0.0 Normal Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 Pink Toe Tarantula
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you also have a couple lines of T positive albino and blood boas. then you have all the color/pattern mutations. it's quite more complicated than just 3 mutations.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons, boas, dogs, cats, fish, an amel tiger retic female, a couple sulcatas and a few other odds and ends.

a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

As far as those three genes go, you have it right.

Albino and Anery are recessive and the hypo is co-dom. But you probably already know that.

Hypo is actually defined as dominant as there are only two distinct phenotypes.

Codominant has three distinct phenotypes, homozygous normal, heterozygous normal/morph and homozygous morph.

Yes, those with a good eye can pick out probable Supers and even some possible ones. But many babies in most if not all litters are not clearly divisible into hypo and super hypo groups.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

Ahhh...

Thank you for the responses

I knew that anery and albino were recessive...and hypo is dominant... but other than that i was at a loss...lol

I suppose most things are more complicated than they seem...I forgot all about the blood boas and T positives!
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1.1.0 Hogg Island Boa
0.1.0 Albino Columbian Boa
0.1.0 Unknown Locality Boa
1.0.0 Carpet Python
1.0.0 Normal Ball Python
1.0.0 Red Albino Cornsnake
0.1.0 Leucistic Rat Snake
1.0.0 Water Dragon
1.0.0 Normal Leopard Gecko
0.0.1 Pink Toe Tarantula
....................................

Shed Your Fears!
www.freewebs.com/ShedYourFears

Yes you have those basics down. As already stated there are more than one Albino and Anery morphs. Along with several other single gene morphs.
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Thanks,

Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com

0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

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

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats