Something that has confused me for a while...

[kevinb]

I'm starting to take a liking to the more high end morphs (phantom, mocha, mystic, freak, special, etc.). While looking though I have noticed one thing that confuses me. We all know about hets, blah blah blah. What I don't understand is there are het red axanthic and het pumas.....yet I can't find that there is a puma or red axanthic. Correct me if I'm wrong please. But I don't understand how something can be a het when it doesn't produce the real thing?

Thanks

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[rexrem]

There is a puma http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/puma/
and a het red axanthic http://www.coreywoods.com/het.shtml
red axanthic http://www.coreywoods.com/red.shtml
From what I understand, the het red axanthics are co-doms where the red axanthic is its super form.

[Kinra]

Some snakes are just named werid, like how some will call yellow bellies het Ivories. I believe there is a Red Axanthic morph. The puma is a little more complicated. I believe het pumas are one of those morphs that you breed to a yellow belly and get something cool out of.

http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/puma/

[kevinb]

Oh okay. I stand corrected. Its just odd since they aren't really hets.

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[pingure]

sorry for the
What else mixes with the yellow bellies like that?
sorry again never heard of that and very curios.

[cmack91]

that puma's freakin insane

[Jessica Loesch]

They ARE hets, genetically. They are codom hets, or heterozygous for a codominant gene. They are not recessive hets, as we normally think of.

[kevinb]

True. They can be called hets, In the codom sense. Its just odd to see it that way.

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[Jonas@Balls2TheWall]

They ARE hets, genetically. They are codom hets, or heterozygous for a codominant gene. They are not recessive hets, as we normally think of.

^This^ Another example could be a lesser being called a het BEL

[Slashmaster]

So is that het-pumas are a complementary gene to the YB gene, thus creating that gorgeous animal? Sort of like how lesser + mojave are complementary genes.. or on the same locus, at least.

If you breed a puma to a normal do you get all YB and het puma?