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Cubes

westexherps

westexherps

I Brake For Snakes
Ok, so just finished reading this months Something About Corns. It featured the cube. I'm still a little confused just wondering if someone could help me out.....If you crossed a Cube het Butter to a Cube het Butter, exactly what could you expect to get....cubes, stripes, normals? Any info is greatly appreciated.
 
I don't think all aspects of cubed have been figured out with 100% certainty, but it seems that the prevailing theory is that cubes are a variation within the homozygous stripe condition. I don't think the exact nature of its heredity has been established either. Two striped parents may produce a clutch with a mix of full four-lined stripes and cubed individuals. So a cubed het butter x cubed het butter pairing would yield the following (keep in mind that any animals listed as homo striped MAY be cubed):

25.00%, Striped, Het for Butter
12.50%, Caramel, Striped, Het for Amel
12.50%, Amelanistic, Striped, Het for Caramel
12.50%, Striped, Het for Caramel
12.50%, Striped, Het for Amel
6.25%, Butter, Striped
6.25%, Caramel, Striped
6.25%, Amelanistic, Striped
6.25%, Striped
 
Not to get off topic, but doesn't the motley gene have an influence on "cubing" as well? I thought "cubing" was basically the same thing as motley/stripe but with a more defined pattern. If this were the case wouldn't you have the chance of getting motleys in the clutch as well? This question is based on the information of the motley and stripe gene falling on the same locus (that is if the motley gene plays a part in it all). I know I could be wrong, probably am, but this is a great post and it would help to clear things up for me. I don't think I fully understand. :shrugs:
Jay :cool:
 
PJCReptiles said:
Not to get off topic, but doesn't the motley gene have an influence on "cubing" as well? I thought "cubing" was basically the same thing as motley/stripe but with a more defined pattern. If this were the case wouldn't you have the chance of getting motleys in the clutch as well? This question is based on the information of the motley and stripe gene falling on the same locus (that is if the motley gene plays a part in it all). I know I could be wrong, probably am, but this is a great post and it would help to clear things up for me. I don't think I fully understand. :shrugs:
Jay :cool:
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Completely on topic as far as I'm concerned. I don't believe that it has been determined that motley is involved, even though I know there have been cubeds produced from mot het stripe x mot het stripe pairings. There's also the possibility that cubed is a separate gene that shares a locus with mot and stripe. But I still think that most corn gene tinkerers are leaning towards it being a variation on homo stripe.

There's a thread on cubeds in Joe Pierce's "Snakes Alive" private forum that is bound to be me more informative than I can be. :)
 
Thank you very much Dean. That has helped considerably. Until the concensus is in with definite proof that it is a separate gene or a mixture of both motley and stripe it will be a guessing game. This is something that only time and breeding trials will be able to figure out.
Jay :cool:
 
Great explaination Dean........ :)
According to Serp this years trials seem to show that "cube" = stripe + selective breeding....
 
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