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[Wandering Paddle]

I bet your ideas about jungle, stripe, reverse stripe, and aberrant are very similar to mine...

 

[paulh]

i can agree to an extent, the stripe genes could easily be listed as recessive ( for the most part), but there seems to be some dilution going on in the stripe gene complex that has an effect on many of the dominate patterns. (i.e. some of the "jungle" and "aberrant" patterns).

Any effect that the stripe gene or genes has in combination with the phenotype of other mutant genes is interesting. Trouble is, the stripe mutant gene or genes are dominant, codominant, or recessive to the normal version of the gene. Interactions with unrelated mutant genes just aren't relevant to whether the stripe genes are recessive to the normal gene.

 

[herpencounter]

I would like to point one thing out. The jungle pattern came out years before the others (unsure about aberrant).

 

[paulh]

This sounds like pig latin to me But I'm still learning :main_thumbsup: So Thanks!

Determining whether a mutant gene is dominant, codominant, or recessive to the normal gene involves answering three questions.

1. Does a gecko with two mutant genes look like a gecko with two normal genes (yes/no)?
In all cases, the answer should be no.

2. Does a gecko with one mutant gene and one normal gene look like a gecko with two normal genes (yes/no)?
If yes, the mutant gene is recessive to the normal gene.
If no, go to question 3.

3. Does a gecko with one mutant gene and one normal gene look like a gecko with two mutant genes (yes/no)?
If yes, the mutant gene is dominant to the normal gene.
If no, the mutant gene is codominant to the normal gene.

It helps to work through the definitions with actual genes and the appearance they produce. Let's take Mack snow as an example.

A = Mack snow gene
a = normal gene

These two genes can make 3 gene pairs -- AA, Aa, aa.

AA = 2 Mack snow genes, producing the super Mack snow phenotype
Aa = 1 Mack snow gene and one normal gene, producing the Mack snow phenotype
aa = 2 normal genes, producing the normal or wild-type phenotype.

1. Does a gecko with two Mack snow genes look like a gecko with two normal genes (yes/no)?
No.

2. Does a gecko with one Mack snow gene and one normal gene look like a gecko with two normal genes (yes/no)?
No. Go to question 3.

3. Does a gecko with one Mack snow gene and one normal gene look like a gecko with two Mack snow genes (yes/no)?
No, so the Mack snow gene is codominant to the normal gene.

Try the same questions with a recessive gene, like one of the albinos, and a dominant gene.

 

[Wandering Paddle]

paulh, that was a great way to explain things. Way better than my drawn out rambling.
I think you just made up for saying a tremper het for raptor was het patternless, im seriously impressed by this. I would have never thought of spreading it out into questions.

 

[paulh]

Doug, if you can edit the morph descriptions on leopardgeckowiki.com, please correct the information it has on RAPTORs. It's my usual one-stop source for leopard gecko genetics.

 

[Wandering Paddle]

its not that the Raptor morph needs to be changed, its that a patternless stripe page needs to be written. If you notice, when you put the courser over the word patternless a subscript appears that says "patternless stripe"

 

[ritrufa]

How to get a best orange line of GECKOS

Hi guys, my name is Ricardo Trujillo, From Lima PERU. south america, well i have a many years breding parrots here in PERU (www.criadero-nesty.com).
now i pretend to do building here my new gecko room.
for this proyect i´m going to Argentina, for buy some geckos, may be in the future i can import geckos from USA.
well come back to my point.
I think buy geckos SHTCT tornado, SHTCT, HT. with this babys geckos i beging my own line of orange.
my questions is: ( i need yours advices from every one)
how i can do for improve my own line of geckos.?
thanks every one.
i hope hear soon from yours.
Ricardo Trujillo.:main_yes: