...I'll play.
1. I believe the cow sucker is a black ratsnake, if I remember correctly.
2. One of the het. genes must be amelanism of some sort, because he refers to the Dixie Dumpling(m) as a recessive gene carrier, paired with an amel.(f) producing the lemon line, which would have to be an amelanistic line, if all the babies were lemon(or other amel.)
3. So, I would say the genotype of a lemon cowsucker is amelanism.
4. The Dixie Dumpling(m) has to be amelanism.
5. What the other het. is, I have no clue. Sounds like all about amelanism to me, but maybe a different amel. gene than what we're used to. And I believe there always has been two, hasn't there?
PS: By dbl. hets. he might have been referring to the fact that the male was this lemon color and the female was a normal amel.
Terry
I'm going to plead complete ignorance here, so humor me.
Just have a couple questions for anyone who wants to enlighten me:
1) What is a cow sucker?
2) What are the 2 het genes being referred to in this post?
3) What is the genotype of a 'lemon' cowsucker?
4) What is a "Dixie Dumpling"? Genotype?
5) Is this all about one gene /- the albino gene or ?
Thanks for any help. Nice snake. I'd like to see representative pics of normal cowsuckers, albinos, and this "Dixie Dumpling" if anyone has any, just for my own knowledge.
Hurley
As you can see, and if you remember last year's pics, this snake has turned bright yellow!! I rebred the double hets and ended up with a clutch of eight eggs that are hatching right now. It appears that I have produced yet another morph this year which I will post pics of next week! I also have three other eggs that the female laid last month out of the blue. I also bred my Dixie Dumpling male(original founder to the lemon line) to a normal female collected from the same area in the same county and hatched 18 eggs from that pairing this week. I'll post pics of those hets as well. They are indeed hets as my Dixie Dumpling proved to be a recessive trait carrier when I crossed him with the amel female to found the Lemon line. I will be out of town for the weekend and will respond to posts on Tuesday or Wednesday.
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~~~Hurley
