Red Coat/Red Factor

[Cat_Eyed_Lady]

I am not sure how it works... I just know the look really is gorgious and works for me I would luv to get some of this into my lava het terrezzo and ultra/ultrmel bloodred pairs I think I will be buggin you next spring Bob

 

[Tom Tuttle]

What NiklasTyreso probably meant is that a parent carrying only one redcoat/red factor gene could be considered "het". If it is dominant, that "het" form would show the trait, but will pass it on to only 50% of the offspring when paired with a non-redcoat/red factor snake. You can still have a homozygous redcoat/red factor snake which shows the trait and all of it's offspring, when paired with a non-redcoat/red factor snake, would show the trait, but "only" be "hets". If this is the case, it might explain a variance in phenotype if the homozygous redcoat/red factor snakes are even much more red in phenotype than one that is only 'het", ie: a "super" form. And it might be more difficult to actually identify some of the "het" redcoat/red factor offspring from some of the normal ones considering normal varience in phenotype (from a breeding of 2 phenotypic redcoat/red factor snakes where both are "hets" resulting in "super"/homozygous offspring, "het" redcoat/red factor offspring, and normal offspring).

Not sure if I'm interpreting this correctly, but if there are three phenotypes involved it is considered incomplete codominance.

 

[ecreipeoj]

Red coat and Red factor are the same thing.
Joe Pierce calls it 'red coat', while Marsha of Poppy corns titled it 'red factor' (which was the name I've always heard Don call it as well).
They both have been working with it for a long while but I BELIEVE it originated with the landrace lava line.
More than likely it will end up being called whatever the cornsnake community decides sounds best.

Don S and I have discussed this quite a bit. We have come to the conclusion that RedFactor and RedCoat are different. Don S actually prefers to uses RedMask, more than RedFactor.

The two red causing "genes" are different in that RedMask, causes red and pink to the background area, like with Neons. RedCoat is a top layer of red pigment over the top of all colors.

Here is a photo Don sent me of some RedMask, and a comparison photo between a RedCoat Sunkissed and Non-RedCoat Sunkissed. RedCoat can occur on any morph, such as Bloodred and Okeetee, like in the next two photos. I believe Champagnes are RedCoats.

 

[ecreipeoj]

RedCoat Strawberries

Strawberry obviously causes red and pink in the blotched areas. Strawberries can be RedCoats as well. Here are photos of a RedCoat Strawberry and Non-RedCoat Strawberry. It seems as if Salmons are Homo Strawberry, but is also very likely that RedCoat and/or RedMask has been visually been selected into Salmons as well.

I am not sure if RedCoat is recessive, but it is certainly not dominant, where one copy of the gene causes visual RedCoats. It may be a variable co-dominant gene like Diffused, where Het RedCoat can been seen as a light tint of red. It is reproducible.

 

[ecreipeoj]

RedCoat Sunkissed vs Non-RedCoat Sunkissed

I just noticed that these photos didn't get posted before. These photos show clearly the RedCoat on Sunkissed vs a normal Sunkissed.

 

[SnakeAround]

Do you think this okeetee phase of mien might be red coat?

My salmon snow, indeed pink on the back ground:

Red coated sunkissed too?