abaro2
VeeDub
Just started getting back into corns and stuff. Being in the military has left me with no time really, but just want to be prepared for the day I get out. =)
but from the sounds of it, just taking a wild guess but it could have been :
Quoted from VMSherp.com
"Trait Linkage - The physically connected pairs of genes don't exist on one long continuous strand. Rather, they exists in large groups of strands called Chromosomes. Oddly, strands have a tendency to break apart and sort in sections rather than in individual pairs of genes as most breeders assume. In other words the alleles of many adjacent loci (plural for locus) may be passed to an offspring as a set, rather than as individual genes.
A friend describes this as similar to flipping coins: When flipped loose, all sorts of heads and tails combinations are easily produced. But when some of them are taped together and flipped, some combinations are impossible to produce. But a persistent breeder knows that eventually the tape will come loose and he'll get the desired combination.
This explains why certain double homozygous forms of reptiles can be incredibly difficult to produce. A well-known example is that of the famous 'Blazing Blizzard' Leopard Gecko. These are nothing more than the two traits of 'Blizzard' and 'Tremper Albino' existing in the homozygous state in one specimen. Learning of the value of these specimens, many breeders quickly bred albino and blizzard specimens together to create the needed double heterozygous specimens. These double hets were then bred together the next year, with breeders expecting the usual one in sixteen offspring to be the 'Blazing Blizzard'. Damn few were produced, with many breeders producing as few as one in two thousand which turned out to be 'Blazing Blizzard'!
While all these breeders understood that something had gone wrong, few understood it was a simple case of trait linkage."
Quoted from VMSherp.com
but from the sounds of it, just taking a wild guess but it could have been :
Quoted from VMSherp.com
"Trait Linkage - The physically connected pairs of genes don't exist on one long continuous strand. Rather, they exists in large groups of strands called Chromosomes. Oddly, strands have a tendency to break apart and sort in sections rather than in individual pairs of genes as most breeders assume. In other words the alleles of many adjacent loci (plural for locus) may be passed to an offspring as a set, rather than as individual genes.
A friend describes this as similar to flipping coins: When flipped loose, all sorts of heads and tails combinations are easily produced. But when some of them are taped together and flipped, some combinations are impossible to produce. But a persistent breeder knows that eventually the tape will come loose and he'll get the desired combination.
This explains why certain double homozygous forms of reptiles can be incredibly difficult to produce. A well-known example is that of the famous 'Blazing Blizzard' Leopard Gecko. These are nothing more than the two traits of 'Blizzard' and 'Tremper Albino' existing in the homozygous state in one specimen. Learning of the value of these specimens, many breeders quickly bred albino and blizzard specimens together to create the needed double heterozygous specimens. These double hets were then bred together the next year, with breeders expecting the usual one in sixteen offspring to be the 'Blazing Blizzard'. Damn few were produced, with many breeders producing as few as one in two thousand which turned out to be 'Blazing Blizzard'!
While all these breeders understood that something had gone wrong, few understood it was a simple case of trait linkage."
Quoted from VMSherp.com
