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How would you enter a ghost boa into the genetics wizard program. Thanks

Entered as homozygous anerythristic,and,either het.,or,homo. hypo,(I would presume it to be het(=co-dom.) until it was bred to show it to be homozygous,unless it was the product of proven dom. X dom. parents.

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The parents were proven to be dominant hypo/anerythristics. otherwise the hypo trait should be entered as dominant het.(the co-dom. hypos are in fact hets for the homozygous,or,"super".)

If I bred a ghost male to a poss. super hypo female. Thanks

And,get ANY normal looking babies,you'll know your female was not dominant. if all the babies look "hypo" half will be dominant,half will be co-dom.(hets)...either way,all babies will be 100% het anerythristic,because your male is homozygous for that trait...the only real variable is whether,or,not the female is a "super",or,a "co-dom"... if she's co-dom the hypos you produce will all be double het ghost,but,25% of the total # in the litter are theoreticlly dominant hypos.

>... 25% of the total # in the litter are theoreticlly dominant hypos.

It might be better to say that there is a 33% chance that any given hypo is a homozygous hypo (AKA "super".

Paul Hollander

In trying to simplify it,I probably just made it sound more complicated

Neither of them work well for the Co-Dom gene's. Genetics Wizard is not set up properly for them right? Anyhow, I new that you were going to poke at me on that one! I post something a reply once in a blue moon and Tim has to pick on me! Where's Herman when you need him!

Just layin' it on the line,you're right about the wizard program tho,in regards to the co-dom catagory,they should just drop that,because it doesn't work.(maybe for Tiger retics?) the salmon & orange-tail traits are actually dominant,with hets & homozygotes being visually indistinguishable in some cases.Hermann thinks they're all crossed with Longicauda! ( )

Here all this time I thought they were Sand Boa Crosses... stupid me! I have been trying to make more and it wasn't working. Learn something every day!

Longicauda?
I think you mean sabogae. But you must admit many salmons and sabogae do look the very same. So much so I'll bet you could not tell them apart.

I was just making a joke about H.S' other conspiracy theory that Arabesques were the result of intergrading Longicauda with something,or,other?(I forget what the other part of the "magic" equasion was.) I'm very familiar with Sabogae,and,the similarity to salmons/o.t.'s,but,I think that anyone that believes Pearl Island boas were the progenitors of what we now call hypos,is just a bit gullible. Who knows how they originally came to the island,but,I doubt that Sabogae sprang from the rocks,and,soil of their native island,and,then populated the mainland.(? I guess it could happen,I just find it a bit hard to swallow?)