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What would happen if you bred Anery A x Anery B. Is one more dominant than the other?
I've never bred corns, but I want to.

Thanks,

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In the first generation you'd get normal corns het for both anerys. I don't know of any one who knows for sure that they have a double homo animal. I am sure they exist, but probably are hard to tell, the only way to tell for sure would to breed it to an anery A and an anery B to see. I know Clint has adults that produce a clutch with both anerys in it, I don't know if he has seen anything different from them. I have a Charcoal female from that clutch and I can't really tell if she looks "different" because she is the only charcoal hatchling I have seen in person.
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You'd get Normal corns?

Anery is a recessive gene right? wouldn't the offspring not produce red either?

or am I missing something?

Like I said,new to the breeding aspect.

thanks,

The anerythristic mutant gene (sometimes called anerythristic A) is recessive to its wild type or normal allele. The charcoal mutant gene (formerly anerythristic B) is recessive to its wild type or normal allele. Crossing an anerythristic snake to a charcoal snake produces normal-looking snakes. This proves that anerythristic and charcoal mutants are not alleles. If the two mutants were alleles, then the babies from an anerythristic x charcoal mating would not look normal. The two mutants have different locations in the corn snake genome. And the wild type allele of anerythristic is not the wild type allele of charcoal.

Crossing amelanistic to anerythristic also produces normal-looking snakes. And the cross proves that the amelanistic and anerythristic mutant genes are not alleles and have different locations in the corn snake genome. The amelanistic x anerythristic cross is a parallel to the anerythristic x charcoal cross, except that amelanistic and anerythristic mutant genes produce distinctly different appearances, while the anerythristic and charcoal mutant genes produce similar appearances. Independent (nonallelic) mutant genes that produce similar appearances are called mimics.

Clear as mud?

Paul Hollander