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Is there a website that has the information on whether or not certain traits in milk snakes, specifically hondurans, are dominant or recessive? Is albino recessive? What about anery and hypo? What do I get if I breed an anery to a hypo? Will breeding an albino to an anery get a snow? Are the various traits qualities of being recessive or dominant different within different species of snakes?
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Niko
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Click on the Albino Tricolors link in the sponsors above all the posts. Terry Dunham has a great genetics page that will lead you on the right path.
John Lassiter

>Is albino recessive? What about anery and hypo?

The albino mutant gene is recessive to its normal allele. The anerythristic and hypomelanistic mutant genes are recessive to their respective normal (AKA wild type) alleles.

>What do I get if I breed an anery to a hypo?

Anerythristic x hypomelanistic produces normal-looking snakes that are heterozygous anerythristic and heterozygous hypomelanistic.

>Will breeding an albino to an anery get a snow?

Albino x anerythristic produces normal-looking snakes that are heterozygous albino and heterozygous anerythristic. Breeding two of those babies together will eventually produce one or more snows.

>Are the various traits qualities of being recessive or dominant different within different species of snakes?

Traits are what you see that differs from the normal appearance. Traits are not dominant or recessive. Mutant genes are dominant or recessive compared to the normal allele of each mutant.

Most mutant genes are recessives. OTOH, while striped in the corn snake is a recessive mutant gene, striped in the California king snake is a dominant mutant gene. You have to go species by species (sometimes subspecies by subspecies) and be prepared for surprises.

Paul Hollander