Phantom?

[arrowhd]

Just about the time I think I'm understanding genetics I get confused again. I have a hypo female and a charcoal male. Would this breeding produce Phantom's?

 

[jlindp]

You'd get Phantoms if your Hypo female were het for Charcoal and your Charcoal male het for Hypo. :}

 

[Tavia]

What she said. ^^
You might already know about this one or others like it, but I really like this corn genetic calculator.
http://www.corncalc.com/

 

[Drizzt80]

Breeding them together, with no matching hets, would give you all Normals. Breeding those offspring together would get you Normals, Charcoals, Hypos, and Phantoms.

D80

 

[arrowhd]

Thanks for the info. I had read on another web site that phantom were produced by matching hypo to charcoal. I actual used the online corncal.com but came up with normals which made sense. Just couldn't make the connection with two different morphs combining to produce something else.

Breeding them together, with no matching hets, would give you all Normals. Breeding those offspring together would get you Normals, Charcoals, Hypos, and Phantoms.

This makes total sense.

 

[ZoologyGirl]

Basically for the morphs that are expressed by being homozygous recessive (which is most morphs), a good rule of thumb is that if you want a specific trait in an offspring, both parents should have a recessive copy of that trait. So if you want amel...both parents should be either homozygous recessive (i.e. showing the trait already), or heterozygous (het.) for that trait. If you want snows (amel + anery), then both parents would need to be either homozygous recessive, or heterozygous for both amel and anery.
Etc..etc...