Motley / Stripe (Serp)

[Joejr14]

Serp, I was going to shoot you a PM but figured I'd just ask here and let everyone else learn a thing or two.

So my new addition is a "cubed motley" stripe? So what do I call it, a stripe, or cubed motley?

You said it's homozygous for stripe at the motley locus. I get that, but what happens when I mate it to a regular motley? Do I get normals? The predictor says so, but I'm just fuzzy on the whole motley and stripe thing and how they work together.

Thanks!

 

[Serpwidgets]

I dunno if "motley" should be in the name. As Joe Pierce said, it doesn't appear to come from the motley gene. It would be either the striped gene or a "cubed" gene at the motley locus.

If it's just a modifier on stripe, then nothing has changed from the current state of motley and striped corns.

If it's a whole new allele at the motley locus then you'd have the following alleles:
M⁺ = Wild type
m^m = Motley
m^s = Stripe
m^c = Cube (presumably recessive to normal)

And the following genotypes would be possible:
M⁺ · M⁺ = Normal
M⁺ · m^m = Normal het motley
M⁺ · m^s = Normal het stripe
M⁺ · m^c = Normal het cube

---------------mutant line----------------------------------

m^m · m^m = Motley
m^m · m^s = Motley/Stripe
m^m · m^c = Motley/Cube (what's that look like?)

m^s · m^s = Striped
m^s · m^c = Stripe/Cube (Striped or Cubed or intermediate?)

m^c · m^c = Cubed

(If you cross anything below the "mutant line" to anything else below the "mutant line" there should not be any normal offspring, because there's no M⁺ allele to inherit.)

 

[Joejr14]

Well I just got an email from the guy and both parents are motleys, so I'm assuming they were both also het for stripe---which is what's causing this.

It'll be interesting to see how some of these breeding trials go.