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Starting a new business: Conceptual phase
12 years ago
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Yes, that's right. I'm giving the whole entrepreneur thing a shot. My plan is to breed ball pythons. I already have a pair that's 100% het for albino, but the female won't be ready to breed for another 2 years most likely. I'm intending to pick up a male with 1-2 codominant traits (pref 2) and 3 or so normal, breeding age females. Hopefully these new acquisitions will be settled in here by October-November, when ball python breeding season starts. Once I actually have breeding pairs and some successful clutches, the business will move out of the conceptual phase and into actual existence.
Now, for some genetics terminology for those of you who don't study such things:
~Homozygous: Having 2 of the same type of gene (two dominant genes, or two recessive)
~Heterozygous: Having 2 different types of gene (One dominant, one recessive)
~Dominant: A trait that overrides other traits. A dominant trait is visible whether it's homozygous or heterozygous...if the dominant gene is present at all, you can see it.
~Recessive: A trait that is overridden by other traits. You can only see recessive traits physically if both versions of that gene are recessive (homozygous recessive.) If the recessive gene is heterozygous with a dominant gene, the dominant gene takes over and is what you see.
~Codominant: A trait that is dominant, but appears differently based on whether it's heterozygous or homozygous. For example, the Mojave ball python morph appears as a slight difference in pattern when it's heterozygous (one Mojave gene, one normal gene.) When the very same gene is homozygous (two Mojave genes) the snake appears pure white with bright blue eyes.
This has been basic genetics with Alby! If you have any questions, feel free to post them in comments.
P.S. Taking down these headers and footers. I still plan on getting them done at some point, but they're getting to be a nuisance to look at in every journal. Instead, I'll replace them with snake status messages.
Now, for some genetics terminology for those of you who don't study such things:
~Homozygous: Having 2 of the same type of gene (two dominant genes, or two recessive)
~Heterozygous: Having 2 different types of gene (One dominant, one recessive)
~Dominant: A trait that overrides other traits. A dominant trait is visible whether it's homozygous or heterozygous...if the dominant gene is present at all, you can see it.
~Recessive: A trait that is overridden by other traits. You can only see recessive traits physically if both versions of that gene are recessive (homozygous recessive.) If the recessive gene is heterozygous with a dominant gene, the dominant gene takes over and is what you see.
~Codominant: A trait that is dominant, but appears differently based on whether it's heterozygous or homozygous. For example, the Mojave ball python morph appears as a slight difference in pattern when it's heterozygous (one Mojave gene, one normal gene.) When the very same gene is homozygous (two Mojave genes) the snake appears pure white with bright blue eyes.
This has been basic genetics with Alby! If you have any questions, feel free to post them in comments.
P.S. Taking down these headers and footers. I still plan on getting them done at some point, but they're getting to be a nuisance to look at in every journal. Instead, I'll replace them with snake status messages.
Codominance is like blood type where you have the A gene and the B gene in which it does have two genes determining the phenotype.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/aao0s9wg2.....2023.39.53.jpg
This is the heterozygous Cinnamon gene for ball pythons. http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/cinnamon/
This is the homozygous gene. http://www.worldofballpythons.com/m.....uper-cinnamon/
And again, this is the het butter gene http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/butter/
And this is the homozygous butter http://www.worldofballpythons.com/m...../super-butter/
Those are clearly not incomplete dominance, as they don't blend traits, but instead exhibit an entirely new trait. And if you look on the left side of the pages, it even identifies the genes as codominant. There are a lot of grey areas between codominance, incomplete dominance, and semidominance, but apparently the geneticists have decided that the traits I'm referring to in ball pythons are codominant.
In ball pythons, having multiple codominant traits is can be slightly idiosyncratic. For example, the butter morph I showed you before combined with Mojave, seen here http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/mojave/ makes the butter mojave http://www.worldofballpythons.com/m.....butter-mojave/
Simultaneously, mixing the butter and cinnamon morphs makes Lithium http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/lithium/
So it's kind of all over the place.
We were working with flies in our lab and well...they all died for our night lab period because the first and second sections managed to get fly nap on the inside of the bottles effectively poisoning the flies.
Also are you albinos heterzygous or homozygous, because I know albinism is autosomal recessive meaning it needs two recessive alleles, and the white "butter" I think is more along the lines of luecism versus being albino because albinos get red eyes I thought.
As for albinism, it is autosomal recessive. There are several types of albinism in ball pythons. There are also several codominant genes that look very similar to albino, like the banana gene http://www.worldofballpythons.com/m.....s/banana-ball/
And if you really want to screw with your head, there are also paradox albinos. It's autosomal recessive like albino, but it appears to be some demented mutation of standard albinism http://s200.photobucket.com/user/19.....phios.jpg.html