Polygenic Traits

[Halley]

I know that polygenic traits, involve multiple locus. I was wondering if these traits still act recessive, dominate, co-dom. For example let’s take a tang. Will some of the traits that make them red, orange, or yellow, still act recessive, while other act dominates? I know this is poorly wondering, I just having a hard time wording it, I hope you understand what I mean.

 

[Halley]

I guess what I mean. If you breed a tang, to a gecko that isn't a tang. You have a tang influence. So wouldn't the part that give the influence be dominate, and the part that goes away recessive. And I meant poorly worded, not poorly wondering. Sorry about that.

 

[Halley]

Anybody, have any ideas?

 

[moneymaker]

I understand what your saying Halley. But what would be responsible for allowing the influence for the 'tang' when crossed to another morph.

Being crossed to something that's Anerytheristic would remove the red pigment, not the orange,yellow. whether that could still influence would depend on the relationship with the genetic make up of what its being crossed to. The orange,yellow should/could be enhanced by a morph already displaying these colours or if able to enhance these colours already.

When I said 'couple' of enigmas I didn't mean it literally.

What If I didn't like the morph at all ? would that be a problem just because you do ? A dictatorship on Leopard Geckos.

I do check local ads in UK, but Diablo Blanco, Enigma, etc morphs are probably not as readily available here as they are in USA. Plus we would pay more over here compared to USA most likely.

 

[moneymaker]

This was meant for my question about colour/pattern - sorry. Not sure how it ended up on here lol.

 

[Halley]

okay, that is fine. Is the top part, for this thread?

 

[Halley]

So does that kidda make red a recessive trait? While orange and yellow are dominate? I know these traits are consider polygenic, but doesn’t there have to be some kind of allele form to them?

 

[paulh]

So does that kidda make red a recessive trait? While orange and yellow are dominate? I know these traits are consider polygenic, but doesn’t there have to be some kind of allele form to them?

I am sure that there are alleles of the genes that are required to produce the different traits. But at this time the testing equipment is mostly the Mark I eyeball. And either that is not sensitive enough or the owner is not educated enough or both to reliably pick out many of the distinctions produced by different genotypes. First we need to get reliable distinctions in some of these conditions. Then we can do breeding tests to determine whether a gene is recessive or not.