Hi I was just browsing through the Python Classifieds and came across Prehistoric Pets ad for an Albino Tiger and a Tiger het Albino. In the description he states that you'll actually get some Tigers in their offspring. Now I know Tiger is a co-dominant gene meaning all Tiger 'hets' are indeed Tigers too. So from my knowledge if you breed the two, all the babies will be Super Tiger, 50% of them will be Albino and 50% will be het Albino. Is this correct?
Thanks,
Josh
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Albino Tiger Retic genetics.......
pythonjosh
Feb 27, 2004 06:11 PM
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C. Elmer
Feb 28, 2004 02:09 AM
Here's what you'd get:
12.5%: Normal Retics, Het. Albino (TTAa)
12.5%: Normal Albino (TTaa)
25%: Tigers Het. Albino (TtAa)
25%: Albino Tigers (Ttaa)
12.5% Super Tigers, Het. Albino (ttAa)
12.5% Albino Super Tigers (ttaa)
You're right about half the overal babies being albino, and the other half being het. albino, but I think what you're forgetting is that since the tiger gene is co-dominant, and the tiger version is the heterozygous state, then an animal would still have the phenotype of Tt . Therefore, with both parents having this phenotype, there would be possible combinations of TT (25%), Tt (50%), and tt (25%). With the albinism thrown in there, it just means there's now several more potential combinations overall, but it's just a matter of knowing how to properly represent the genotypes of the animals and how to combine them in a punnett square.
-Christian-
P.S. I'd post the table I worked out, but I'm too lazy to do the work of formatting it for this forum.
>>Hi I was just browsing through the Python Classifieds and came across Prehistoric Pets ad for an Albino Tiger and a Tiger het Albino. In the description he states that you'll actually get some Tigers in their offspring. Now I know Tiger is a co-dominant gene meaning all Tiger 'hets' are indeed Tigers too. So from my knowledge if you breed the two, all the babies will be Super Tiger, 50% of them will be Albino and 50% will be het Albino. Is this correct?
>>Thanks,
>>Josh
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