What impact does incubation temp have on Banded King coloration? Are aberreants, high whites, stripes, etc breedable genetic traits or recessives? Or do they depend upon environmental factors?
Thanks -JAC
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Incubation temps vs morphs in Banded Cal Kings
wombat
Mar 04, 2005 11:46 AM
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Paul Hollander
Mar 04, 2005 01:37 PM
The striped phenotype is caused by a dominant mutant gene. The expression can be quite variable, and some are included under the aberrant category. See Richard Zweifel's paper in 1982, Journal of Heredity.
I'm not up on the others. Good luck.
Paul Hollander
markg
May 05, 2005 11:34 PM
The traits are genetic, but not SIMPLE genetic, meaning that you can't really map out the probabilities of getting either morph if say a stripe is bred to a banded. Of course, a pattern like high-white will transfer to offspring reasonably predictably when 2 high-whites are bred together.
Even if incubation temps do affect pattern, it is not the reason for all of the crazy Cal king patterns available now.
>>What impact does incubation temp have on Banded King coloration? Are aberreants, high whites, stripes, etc breedable genetic traits or recessives? Or do they depend upon environmental factors?
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>>Thanks -JAC
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Mark G
Whitewater rosies, normals and albinos
A few milks, kings and a pituophis
On the lookout for nice robust ruthveni and mex-mex again.
