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Tessera Corns- UPDATE
- Thread starter StrangeCargo
- Start date
Drizzt80
Dakota Corns
Numbers. All offspring will be het-T. (Of course that creates a monetary dis-advantage as morph combos will be produced quicker and easier.)
D80
El Jefe
Mark 16:18
Not really.
The Tessera X Amel = 50% Tesseras het amel and 50% should be Normals het Amel.
Technically, if the Tessera morph does have a super form then all regular tesseras are "hets" but it does not work in the fashion as a simple recessive. All "het" tesseras are seen as tesseras and are seen immediately and there can be no other hets...i.e. het tessera.
The Super Tessera bred to anything would produce 100% "hets" aka tesseras.
The regular tessera (aka "het") bred to anything would produce 50% "hets" aka tesseras.
El Jefe
Mark 16:18
Bingo. If one looks at the pastel, spider, etc. market with ball pythons over the last couple years one will notice HUGE declines in price of those. HOWEVER, those co-dom genes combined with the simple recessive are still holding their value a little as they are harder to create...especially the double recessive with one on of the codom. I.e. tessera may be easy to acquire and cheap in the future but a tessera lavender sunkissed will be a different story for a little while.
El Jefe
Mark 16:18
Yep. If there is a "regular" form and a "super" form then all the "regulars" are the hets and in this inheritance mode all hets happen to be visuals. Homozygous individuals will be visuals too.
Now, the difference between co-dom and dominant genes is the fact of whether you can see a difference in the two forms.
If the het form and super form are the same, people usually refer to it as dominant and only breeding trials can tell the difference. Spider ball pythons are an example of such a gene...but there are few people who have taken the breeding trials this far as most people take their spider to something else and rarely is a spider X spider cross done as there as been no difference in offspring...i.e. no super visual. But...it is rumored it may be out there.
If the het form is different looking than than the super it is often referred to as a co-dom. Mojave ball pythons come to mind as a super mojave is a leucistic....very different looking than a mojave.
The confusion really comes as they appear to be the same word with a prefix but they do not translate to: co-dom = het and dominant = homozygous. Very different definitions based on whether there are visual differences between the two.
Whether tessera is dominant or co-dom probably remains to be seen but it looks like that pin-stripy may be some sort of indication of possible co-dom status. :shrugs:
Also, just for technicality reasons...there is a chance (slim, I know) that the odds were REALLY crazy and instead of the offspring being 50% on AVERAGE tesseras, all of them happened to be tesseras and if so this would make no super form. It is a stretch but it could happen.
guttatus.ch
Jeepers! Keepers
May I ask for a belly pic or description?
Would interesting to know from a super form - at least for me.
Congratz & thanks for the info!
Greetz
Would interesting to know from a super form - at least for me.
Congratz & thanks for the info!
Greetz