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What is a SuperForm Tessera Cornsnake?

dave partington

dave partington

Crazy Dave
I've run across the term 'Superform" regarding Tessera recently. It seems to indicate that this is when a Tessera is bred to another Tessera, that the resulting offspring are 'SuperForm'.

However, it is also my understanding that when Tessera X same occurs, that only 50% of the offspring are Tessera, the rest are normals or some other pattern.

Has anyone managed to produce a clutch of 100% tessera babies from a tessXsame breeding?

Are there other 'Superform' cornsnakes?
Thanks,
dp
 
I think superform refers to, when using a morph that is dominant expressed, it has 2 dominant genes. So 1 dominant and 1 recessive is a regular tessera, and 2 dominant genes is super. I'm not sure if there is a difference in look with the tesseras though if it has 1 or 2, I haven't been following tesseras much. I know with like ball pythons or whatever a superform can produce a different look than the regular. So a tessera with 2 dominant ("super") bred to another super or 'regular' tessera should produce 100% tesseras. While breeding a tessera with 1 dominant x another tessera with 1 dominant would produce 25% "super" (2 dominants), 50% regular (1 dominant), and 25% normal (both recessive).

Though like I said I haven't been following tesseras much so someone else can correct me if I misinterpreted anything.
 
AFAIK, the "super" Tesseras are so far indistinguishable from regular Tesseras. But there haven't been many yet.
 
Nanci said:
AFAIK, the "super" Tesseras are so far indistinguishable from regular Tesseras. But there haven't been many yet.
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**Maybe not in appearance, but mode of inheritance is not indistinguishable.

dc

** There are some strange colored tesseras produced in Europe last year, not sure if they were from a super form or not. They also seemed to have a wider stripe pattern but that could just be the luck of the draw regarding the striping.

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=111996&highlight=black+tesseras
 
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