Questions on tangerines, high yellows and hypos

[Yveskevin]

1. We all know that line breeding tangerines will produce a more intense orange gecko right? Does this also apply to outcrossing / breeding non related tangerines? Lets say they both have the same orange intensity, will they produce a more orange-y gecko?

2. Since high yellow is also a line bred trait, does does pairing related geckos produce a more yellow gecko?

3. Can anyone confirm of hypo gene is really a dominant or codominant gene? Ive always known for it to be dominant but ive heard somewhere that it was a codom since the super form (homozygous) is called a "super hypo"

 

[acpart]

I would imagine that breeding any geckos of similar color together increases the chances of getting more geckos of similar color since it's a polygenetic trait.

I don't think hypo/superhypo works like snow/supersnow since hypo/superhypo really refers to few or no spots, not to a super form of a hypo. That said, someone on here years ago did feel that there was a genetic dominant/recessive component to super hypo and may even have talked about a super form of it. You'd have to do a bit of searching to find it. I may be wrong, but the person posting about it was from Germany and named Johannes. Maybe you can find it on the site.

Aliza

 

[DrCarrotTail]

From my understanding Hypo is dominant and has been proven to be. Super hypo is a line bred trait where folks took hypos with just a few spots and bred them until all the spots were gone. The hypo gene has to be present to get a super hypo but it has nothing to do with whether it's there in one or two copies.

The other two, tangs and high yellows, have both been line bred to look the way they do. I believe high yellow and Carrot Tail were two of the first things that were a focus of line breeding in the leopard gecko hobby