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butter x butter

Flea886

Flea886

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We just recently bought a butter female and previously had a butter male. The female will be ready next season. Neither are proven and do not know their hets if any. I know most likely we will get all butters (fine by me they are my favorite!) My question is what are the chances of getting hypo butters or will the babies be considered hypo since both parents are butter?
 
Both parents would have to be het Hypo. And if both are you would have a 1/4 chance to get a hypo butter!
 
What Jereme said above plus Butters are Homozygous Amel and Caramel. There is no Hypo gene Homozygous in the morph definition.
That said your Butter could possibly be Het for many things. The most common ones within that morph would be pattern genes like Stripe and Motley and/or Hypo.

Terri
 
Fun note, you won't be able to tell the hypo butters from the normal butters; hypo works on black pigment of which your snakes have none!
 
Shiari said:
Fun note, you won't be able to tell the hypo butters from the normal butters; hypo works on black pigment of which your snakes have none!
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As does albinism (the inability to produce melanin = brown and black pigment). Technically, albinism is a form of hypopigmentation, but hypo isn't always a form of albinism. PKU (Phenylketonuria) is a fun example of this, where the deficiency of phenylalanine hydroxylase can result in elevated levels of L-phenylalanine in the blood, which can lead to mental retardation and hypopigmentation of the skin and hair. Defective phenylalanine hydroxylase can also trickle down to defective production of tyrosine. If tyrosine production is defective as a result of either phenylalanine hydroxylase or tyrosinase, then melanin production can be defective or non-existent, and thus potentially triggering albinism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenylketonuria

http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/635pku.html

The expression of hypo and albino at the same time can produce an animal that is different looking, albeit very subtle in hatchling form. Ian's Vivarium actually shows this quite well in hypo butters versus just butters.
 
There often are a couple of hets floating around, but it's a pretty slim chance you'll have the same het trait in both animals (even more so since they're probably unrelated). And like everyone said above, even if you do have the same het trait you only have a 25% chance of producing that trait visually. But hey, sometimes you get lucky!

Do you know what the parents were for either of your snakes?
 
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