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Still a bit fuzzy on the Super Stripe. I know a Specter and a YB will produce them. But, when you breed a super stripe to a normal do you get superstripes also?

I'd think the ratio would be

1/4 Specter
1/4 YB
1/4 Super Stripe
1/4 Normal

Is this correct? Will superstripes produce themselves when bred to normals?

Thanks, Christy

You would produce only Specters andor Yellow Bellies, no Super Stripes or normals.

Can you explain how that could be? Does not seem to fit into a normal genetic square.

Thanks, Christy

The best way to make sense of this is to regard ivory and super stripe as the same thing genetically, just different color forms. super stripe (a super) x normal will give you all codoms ( specters and yb's) in no predictable numbers since they are the same thing genetically. hope that helps. Kurt d.

The specter gene acts on the same area as the yellowbelly gene, so it is similar to an ivory in the sense that it throws no normals.

Same way you can't have an ivory super stripe.

>>Can you explain how that could be? Does not seem to fit into a normal genetic square.
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>>Thanks, Christy

Both components are basically "hets" that make the visual Super Stripe. They both occur at the same loci(address).

So, if you have an Albino and breed it to a Normal ALL of the babies are Heterozygous Albinos. I think we all understand this.

When a Spector(het Super Stripe) and Yellow Belly (het Super Stripe) in this case are bred together they make a Visual Super Stripe. It is made from these two gene components, each parent gave one side and the resulting offspring has both(the Super Stripe). When bred to a normal it gives both of these visually different Hets in the clutch.

I like to call the Super Stripe, Puma, Highway, Vanilla Creme, Eraser Head - "Acts Like Super".
ALS when bred to normal ALL babies will consist of the genes that made the visual. It can not reproduce itself.

Kevin
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Thanks Everyone!

So a SS x YB = white snakes, superstripes, specters and YBs?

Yes