Cornsnake genetics 101

[Alfheim]

I'm far from new to genetics, however, cornsnake genetics have me going crosseyed.
I know miss Amber is a combination of two recessive traits (hypo and caramel/hyperxanthic) now, what happens if you combine it with another recessive? What would happen if one bred an amber to a lavender or a charcoal or anything else with a recessive genotype? Which phenotype would show up? Also, without knowing miss Amber's parents, could she be het for another trait?
We're looking in to getting a "Rob" for our Amber and would like to at least harbor the idea that we could breed them some day and end up with something cool.
Thanks

 

[Joejr14]

I'm far from new to genetics, however, cornsnake genetics have me going crosseyed.
I know miss Amber is a combination of two recessive traits (hypo and caramel/hyperxanthic) now, what happens if you combine it with another recessive? What would happen if one bred an amber to a lavender or a charcoal or anything else with a recessive genotype? Which phenotype would show up? Also, without knowing miss Amber's parents, could she be het for another trait?
We're looking in to getting a "Rob" for our Amber and would like to at least harbor the idea that we could breed them some day and end up with something cool.
Thanks

Amber x anything not homozygous or heterozygous for caramel or hypomelanism will result in all normals.

 

[mvervest]

Amber x anything not homozygous or heterozygous for caramel or hypomelanism will result in all normals.

This is a short but clear answer from Joejr14 .
I suggest you look for a Rob with caramelgenes ; caramel , butter , amber if you want to avoid passing the step of normals offspring

 

[Serpwidgets]

I'm far from new to genetics, however, cornsnake genetics have me going crosseyed.
I know miss Amber is a combination of two recessive traits (hypo and caramel/hyperxanthic) now, what happens if you combine it with another recessive? What would happen if one bred an amber to a lavender or a charcoal or anything else with a recessive genotype? Which phenotype would show up? Also, without knowing miss Amber's parents, could she be het for another trait?
We're looking in to getting a "Rob" for our Amber and would like to at least harbor the idea that we could breed them some day and end up with something cool.
Thanks

With the exception of motley/stripe and ultra/amel, each of the corn mutants is at an independent location in the genome, so they act independently... whatever is at the caramel locus in the male will be crossed to whatever is at the caramel locus in the female, whatever is at the lavender locus in the male will be crossed to whatever is at the lavender locus in the female, etc etc.

So, as Marc said, if you want to make something other than normals in the first generation you'd want a male that is carrying hypo and/or caramel genes.