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genetics question

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phillies2007

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This is my first post to this wonderful forum. I have learned so much about corn snakes, their care, habits and morph from reading the forum.
My question. My boys each have a corn snake and they would like to breed them to see what they get. They have a female anery and a male hypo het. anery. What would be the outcome of their breeding?
Also, What is a hypo?

Thanks in advance for your replies,
Scott
 
phillies2007 said:
This is my first post to this wonderful forum. I have learned so much about corn snakes, their care, habits and morph from reading the forum.
My question. My boys each have a corn snake and they would like to breed them to see what they get. They have a female anery and a male hypo het. anery. What would be the outcome of their breeding?
Also, What is a hypo?

Thanks in advance for your replies,
Scott
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Hypo is one of the basic, single gene, recessives that alter the color of normal/wild-type snakes.

Provided their snakes have no other hets, the clutch will (statistically) be 50% normal het anery and hypo and 50% anery het hypo.

You might also get ghosts or hypos if your anery female turns out to be het for hypo.

You might also get amel or snows, if both of your snakes turn out to be het for amel.

Amel, anery, and hypo are the most common hets floating around.

For more information on genetics, the FAQ is good reading:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28343

As is Charles Pritzel's on-line genetics tutorial and morph pages:
http://www.serpwidgets.com/Genetics/genetics.html
http://www.serpwidgets.com/Morphs/morphs.html

And I put up a list of morphs here:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57782&highlight=recipe
 
I must say that genetics is a very strong field around here. I asked my question and immediately was swarmed with helpful answers.

Hypo is a short for Hypomelanistic- a "weakened colored" trait. Having less Melanin, the dark coloring on their body is more faint. They tend to be brighter than the classic phase cornsnakes.

Assuming your Anery is type A:
50% Anery, het for Hypo
50% Normal, het for Ghost(which has both anery and hypo)

Here are some excellent links I was handed when I asked about it:

http://www.pitt.edu/~mcs2/herp/genetics.html
http://www.vmsherp.com/
http://www.serpwidgets.com/Genetics/genetics.html

I cannot recall the links for the genetic calculators but they are really good.. so if someone can post'em for you they would be of great use to you.
 
batwrangler said:
Hypo is one of the basic, single gene, recessives that alter the color of normal/wild-type snakes.

Provided their snakes have no other hets, the clutch will (statistically) be 50% normal het anery and hypo and 50% anery het hypo.

You might also get ghosts or hypos if your anery female turns out to be het for hypo.

You might also get amel or snows, if both of your snakes turn out to be het for amel.

Amel, anery, and hypo are the most common hets floating around.

For more information on genetics, the FAQ is good reading:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28343

As is Charles Pritzel's on-line genetics tutorial and morph pages:
http://www.serpwidgets.com/Genetics/genetics.html
http://www.serpwidgets.com/Morphs/morphs.html

And I put up a list of morphs here:
http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57782&highlight=recipe
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beat me to it :cry:
 
WOW!!! What awesome and fast responses!!! Thank you all so much for the responses. I'm not sure about the other traits of the Anery. She was bought at the Northern Berks Reptile show and was listed as an Anery. The male was bought this weekend at the same show at was listed as a Hypo het. Anery.
It will be interesting to see if anything else shows up in the hatchlings.
Thanks again for all the great explanations.

Scott
 
I have another question. I was looking at some photos on another website and I think our "Hypo" is actually a Lava. Would this change the outcome of the breeding with our Anery A female.
Thanks in advance,
Scott
 
phillies, if your male was sold as a hypo, he most likely is. Lava is a fairly newly discovered morph and not nearly as widespread as hypo. You will find hypo in pet shops but not lava.
And if your male is a lava, it would change the outcome of breeding with your anery girlie. :)
Good luck next seaon!
 
There are actually at least 4 different "hypo" genes...hypo A, Sunkissed, lava and ultra. There are a few others...Christmas, strawberry, dream, and possibly others. I think one of these have also been proved to be a separate gene, but I forget which. But if the breeder specifically labeled the one snake as being hypo het anery, then I would say the breeder has a working knowledge of corn genetics and knows what genes are present in his/her snakes.
 
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