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K&N Reptiles has some dominant gene geckos available. One is a ghost dominant gene and another is hypo tangerine dominant gene. What does this mean exactly? Also, in their classified ad, they say that the ghost is the first leo dominant gene. Is ghost and hypo the same? I included a link to the hypo dominant page. I would really like to know more about this because it seems pretty cool. Thanks
jason
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Simply put, dominance is what you see. For instance, if the Ghost gene is dominant then the babies leos are going to have a great chance of coming out looking like "ghost" morph leos. Slightly more complicated would be if the gene for ghost was GG or Gg (G and g are for dominant ghost and recessive ghost, respectively). If you cross some other gene with a Gg carrier then you will produce a batch with some that will look like the ghost morph, and depending on what you crossed it with the others COULD show the same ghost characteristic or more likely they will show what the other set of genes expressed as dominant (that is unless you mated to ghost leos). The same would apply to the tangerine gene aswell. Hope that makes some kind of sense, and I hope even more so that I am right

The dominant ghost gene works like this.
If you breed a ghost to a normal each egg has a 50% chance of either being a ghost or a normal on your first generation of offspring. There are no hets its either a ghost or a normal.

When you breed 2 ghost together each egg has a 75% chance of being a ghost and a 25% chance of being normal.

Now the color the geckos will exhibit will depend on the color of the other parent. If you breed a ghost to a snow the background color will be very light with hints of blue/gray.

Many of you don't know this but true carrot-tails are direct descendent from this line of ghost.
They all originated from a small group of wild caught hypos imported into the U.K. several years ago. Some were kept pure and never introduce into any other mutation. The rest were breed back to hypo tangerines. That's how the carrot-tail was made.

There is something about this ghost gene that allows color to flood into the tails of the geckos. Of course the amount of color in the tail is not always the same. That's where line breeding comes in to play. But the color doesn't have to be orange! That's the fun part leopard geckos have many different color variations so the options are infinite!

We have had a blast working with this new gene. It has created some very different looking geckos when breed into other genes and color variations.
I hope this helps answer your question. If anyone has any question please feel free to give me a call.
Nicole Elliser
K&N Reptiles
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