Today, we understand that the Strawberry Mutation is dominant to wild-type. The only two pairings I've done to support that heritability reality was pairing a known Salmon Snow to Anery Mutants Het Amel. Those two pairings resulted in 50% classic Aneries and 50% Aneries with a pink over-wash.
The reason I asked about the possibility of 'visually Hypo A' is because of what Don mentions in his post; 'Strawberry is dominant to wild type'. Coupled with Hypo A being recessive to wild type.
Strawberry is not dominant to wild type (Normal), it is recessive just like Hypo A. Strawberries are produced from Normals het Strawberry all the time. If Strawberry was dominant to Normal, there would not be any Normals het Strawberry.
In Don’s example above he is breeding a Strawberry Amel Anery x Anery het Amel. The entire clutch would be het Strawberry, so IF it was dominant when Anery is expressed, ALL of the offspring would have a pink over wash, because they would all be het Strawberry. Perhaps the Anerys het Amel were also het Hypo A or het Strawberry. In this case, 50% of the Anerys would be homo Strawberry or Strawberry/Hypo which could cause 50% of the Anerys to have a pink over wash.
There have been Anerys with pink for many years, that are not homo or het for Hypo OR Strawberry, so there is obviously a separate cause of pink coloration on Anerys and Snow, other than Strawberry. Red Factor and RedCoat cause pink on Snows and are much more likely to be dominant to wild type and the cause of the pink Anerys in Don’s example above.
Hi Tara,
ya know I have thought about that, BUT I would think if Don's Coral was Strawberry or Hypo A/Strawberry based, I believe it would have a much more intense pink coloration.
I have never seen a light colored Salmon Snow (as Don's is).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but seeing that Hypo A & Strawberry are allelic, you can't have one of them visual (homo) and the other in het form at the same time.
If both traits are the together, they are expressed together.
Walter
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Hypo A and Strawberry are alleles just like Amel and Ultra are and like Striped and Motley are. With Amel and Ultra, they are co-dominant, half way between Amel and Ultra. With Striped and Motley alleles, Motley is dominant, and het Striped and Motleys are visible Motleys het Striped. Remember they all only have one copy of each gene. They are actually, Het Amel Ultra, Het Striped Motley and Het Straw Hypo.
I am not sure about Hypo A and Strawberry, but they seem to be co-dominant like Amel and Ultra, with the phenotype of a Hypo A/ Strawberry being half way in-between the two morphs. Hypos are orange and Strawberries are red. Hypo/Strawberries are orange/red. Now when we apply this to Snows, I agree with Don, that Hypo does not cause pink coloraton. A Hypo Snow would not be pink due to being homo Hypo, where a Strawberry Snow is VERY pink, like Salmon Snows. A Hypo/Straw Snow would be somewhere in between.
It is obvious that Coral Snows (Hypo Snow) and Salmon Snows (Straw Snow) have been mixed together in the beginning. This would produced Hypo/Straw Snows. When a Hypo/Straw Snow is bred to any other Corn, 50% will be het for Straw and 50% het for Hypo. In Don’s example of Straw being dominant to wild type above, I guess it is possible for Straw to be dominant when Anery is expressed, but I doubt it. The Snow in that case would have to be a Hypo/Straw Snow. It is much more likely that a dominant gene such as Red Factor or Red Coat are the cause of 50% pink Anerys.
If Red Factor or Red Coat are dominant, a Het Red Factor bred to any Corn would produced 50% Het Red Factor (Red or Pink) and 50% Normal, just like when we are breeding Het Tesseras which are dominant. Just about all Tesseras are Het Tessera, not homo Tessera.