Basic Gentecis Question.......

[bamsd619]

I have a general question. I I breed a Raptor to a het Raptor, will all offspring be Raptor? Also will this scenario hold true with all morph and reptile species?

Thanks in advance for the education !! ;-)
Brandon

 

[BalloonzForU]

When pair RAPTORs the genectics aren't the same as if you were asking if you bred a Tremper to a het Tremper.

Is the het Raptor albino? If it's albino outcome would be one way and if not outcome would be another.

 

[bamsd619]

actually, the real life example is fat tail geckos. There is amel (which is a cool red/white) looking. I have an AMEL male and a bunch of het amel females. I am curious what the outcome would be.

Thanks!
B

 

[okapi]

breeding a het to a homozygous would produce this:
__A__a
a Aa aa
a Aa aa

50% of the babies would be hets (Aa), 50% would be amels (aa).

The Raptor morph isnt a single gene. Its a morph created using several polygenetic and recessive traits. But a simple recessive bred to a het simple recessive would produce half hets and half simple recessives.

Amel AFTs are albinos. Amelanistic means lacking black pigment. The term albino is over used because when the term was invented, all albinos were thought to be white (albino is from the word albus meaning white). Technically the Mack snow morph would be considered albino as well... It is an Anerythristic mutation (Anerythristic means lacking color(?) Or at least bright ones like reds, oranges, and yellows.) Because of this people usually use the term albino when describing amelanistic animals, but it actually works for describing any mutation in which a color pigment is "turned off"

Hopefully over the next years of captive breeding more descriptive latin words will be used in place morph names...

 

[BalloonzForU]

What you guys need to remember is that most of the traits in a RAPTOR are linebread not recessive, Tremper albino is the only proven recessive.

Scrap, I missed half your post Daniel.

 

[okapi]

No problem

I love all the traits in Raptors, it means I will be suprised time and again for seasons to come :main_yes: Im hoping for a carrot head, carrot tail, reverse stripe, albino, gaint, eclipse (RERS = Red eyed reverse stripe)

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Only a red-eyed APTOR (Tremper Albino leopard gecko) can be a RAPTOR.

 

[okapi]

I just thought of something... When he named the two morphs, APTOR and RAPTOR, why did he pick those letters? The first APTOR produced was a male and that male's first 6 APTOR hatchlings were red eyed, and thus the first RAPTORS were produced. Now.. what Ive been thinking, I know that RT likes making up anagrams (like C.R.A.P. for example...) but why did he choose APTOR? I dont really feel that A.P.T.O.R. would be an "Aha!" type thing that just poped into his head. Maybe he just called APTORS Tremper line patternless orange albinos until he hatched those first RAPTORs and then decided "hm... if I rearrange the words and call the non-red eyed ones "APTORS" for Albino Patternless Tremper line ORange then I can call the Red eyed Albino Patternless Tremper line ORange ones "RAPTORS" which is cool sounding and would get more sales!"

The reason Im thinking this is because the first APTORs offered for sale were hatched AFTER the first Raptor had hatched. So a quick renaming before public release would generate more sales? What do you think?