When a boa is double het for sunglow, what are the two morphs that it is het for?
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dh for sunglow
ATRA
Apr 27, 2009 03:57 PM
Replies (11)
LarM
Apr 27, 2009 04:11 PM
This is a Hypo heterozygous for Albino
A sunglow is a Boa displaying the Hypo trait
as well as the Homozygous Albino trait.
So a Sunglow is a Hypo Albino Boa.
. . . Lar M
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skyslinger
Apr 27, 2009 05:22 PM
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Ty Hege
Rat Race Solutions
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atra
Apr 27, 2009 08:38 PM
Why not het for both hypo and albino, is hypo not recessive? I am asking because I am trying to define a similar situation in another species.
rainbowsrus
Apr 27, 2009 08:54 PM
>>Why not het for both hypo and albino, is hypo not recessive? I am asking because I am trying to define a similar situation in another species.
It is actually het for both Hypo and Albino. In Boa constrictors, hypo is a dominant morph so being het for hypo is visual hypo. Albino is recesive so het Albino looks normal. A DH Sunglow is an animal that shows the hypo trait and is also het for Albino.
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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 
atra
Apr 28, 2009 06:33 AM
What is produced when two hypos(that are not het for anything) are bred together?
rainbowsrus
Apr 28, 2009 10:50 AM
Assuming both are Het Hypos then....
1/4 Super Hypo (or homozygous Hypo)
1/2 Hypo
1/4 Normal
Problem is you can't always tell the homozygous Hypos from the heterozygous Hypos. Yeah some are more obvious than others. but there is a grey area where it could have one or two Hypo genes and the only way to know for sure is to breed it. That is why Hypo in BCI is classified as a dominant trait.
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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
atra
Apr 28, 2009 06:40 AM
What is produced when two hypos,that are not het for anything are bred together?
symetryexotics
Apr 28, 2009 11:59 AM
1/2 Hypo, 1/4 Super Hypo (when bred to a normal ALL babies are
Hypo) and 1/4 Normal
ATRA
Apr 28, 2009 01:09 PM
any pics of super hypo?
AshLopez
Apr 27, 2009 09:16 PM
Dbl het Sunglow means ......
The boa is a HYPO and het for albino and sunglow (hypo albino).
Only a hypo can be dbl het sunglow.
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Ashley Lopez's Black Forest Constrictors.
LarM
Apr 28, 2009 01:38 AM
