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[snakemanone]

Hi all.


My normal female laid 15 eggs and saturday they started pipping,well by sunday evening they ALL hatched, now i have a question, i know my female is normal (no hets) the male is visually normal,as i have 5 amels in this clutch does it mean that the male is het amel?.

I have also paired the said male to a snow female (13 eggs all good)due out 24/7/03 should have some interesting young eh.


STEVE.......

 

[snakemanone]

one more

sorry about pic quality but i only have cheepo web cam.

 

[bizzy]

Amel hatchlings

Because amel is a recessive trait, BOTH parents must be het for it in order to have amels in the hatchlings. Evidently both of your corns have a normal phenotype, but both are also het for amel. Statistically, 25% of your hatchlings should be amel in this situation, and 50% would be het for amel and 25% normal, so you have beaten the odds with 33% amels.

bizzy

 

[snakemanone]

great

thanx,

any idea on the outcome of the male with a snow female?

 

[Darin Chappell]

If you crossed your male normal het amel to your female snow, you should get:

50% amels het for anery

and

50% normals het for amel and anery

Hope that helps!

 

[WingedWolf]

Correct me if I'm wrong....

But wouldn't it be 50% normals het for amel (100%) and possibly het for anery (50%)?

 

[pinatamonkey]

Re: Correct me if I'm wrong....

But wouldn't it be 50% normals het for amel (100%) and possibly het for anery (50%)?

Since the snow female is expressing anery, all the offspring will be het anery.

 

[CAV]

Darin is correct. If the male is Normal, het Amel and the female is Snow:

50% Amel, het Anery
50% Normal, het Amel and Anery (Snow)

Both parent are carriers of the gene. The mother is homo and the father is hetero for Amel. The odds are then 50/50 that the offspring will come out as an Amel or a Normal. Since the mother is also homo for Anery, 100% of the offspring will be het for Anery.