Is the tangerine trait 'codominant' or recessive? Same question with vanishing pattern.
tang x normal = ????
Thanks,
Zack
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Tang/vanishing pattern question (Hondos)
ZackHulihan
Jul 26, 2009 11:29 PM
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rtdunham
Aug 01, 2009 11:16 PM
>>Is the tangerine trait 'codominant' or recessive? Same question with vanishing pattern.
>>tang x normal = ????
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Zack
To the best of my knowledge, neither are simple genetic traits, but rather are the result of the interaction of numerous genes.
tangerine x tricolor (both are "normal" in that they're found in the wild) produces clutches some of which are tangerine, some are tricolor, some are in between (individual clutches may be exceptions but this general rule is true; the distribution between the two color types seems to depend on the background of the parents (is the tricolor parent from a tricolor x tangerine pairing, for ex? etc)
None of the pattern morphs have been demonstrated to be simple genetic traits, so far as i know.
