Does tongue color (Black/grey vs Pink) have any bearing on genetics?
05-20-2013, 12:46 PM
iCandiBallPythons
Re: Tongue Color?
No
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05-20-2013, 12:51 PM
Annarose15
Re: Tongue Color?
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Originally Posted by iCandiBallPythons
No
Just thinking aloud here, but this might be too stark of an answer. I don't believe I've seen a bumblebee without a pink tongue, or a normal with a pink tongue, so who's to say it isn't genetically linked?
05-20-2013, 12:58 PM
ChaosAffect
Re: Tongue Color?
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Originally Posted by Annarose15
Just thinking aloud here, but this might be too stark of an answer. I don't believe I've seen a bumblebee without a pink tongue, or a normal with a pink tongue, so who's to say it isn't genetically linked?
Thank you! I didn't just post this without looking for other threads. There seems to be a lot of assumption around this topic without any real information, probably because it's not a trait that is obvious so people don't look for it. There are all sorts of little tells that may help you identify if the animal you're dealing with might have some interesting gene and it seems to me that tongue color could be one of them. It might not be important for a simple co-dom mutation, but if you look at something like a YB, then see the Super form... yeah, I think we could use all the info on possible markers that we can get!
05-20-2013, 02:13 PM
eatgoodfood
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No
Of course tongue color has to do with genetics, its genetics that determines what color it is. As for if its related to any specific morphs, i.e. morph A. only has pink tongues, its certainly possible. It'd be cool to pick a morph and get pictures of everyones animals tongue color posted for comparison.
05-20-2013, 02:17 PM
ChaosAffect
Re: Tongue Color?
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Originally Posted by eatgoodfood
Of course tongue color has to do with genetics, its genetics that determines what color it is. As for if its related to any specific morphs, i.e. morph A. only has pink tongues, its certainly possible.. its be cool to pick a morph or to and get pictures of everyones animals tongue color posted for comparison.
That'd be a fun afternoon... I can just picture it. Staring a BP right in the face and saying, "Now open your mouth and say 'Ahhh!'.".
05-20-2013, 02:20 PM
eatgoodfood
Re: Tongue Color?
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Originally Posted by ChaosAffect
That'd be a fun afternoon... I can just picture it. Staring a BP right in the face and saying, "Now open your mouth and say 'Ahhh!'.".
LOL yeah, I can imagine it being pretty difficult to get a good picture. Or one at all.
05-20-2013, 02:29 PM
jcoylesr76
Re: Tongue Color?
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Originally Posted by eatgoodfood
LOL yeah, I can imagine it being pretty difficult to get a good picture. Or one at all.
video it and go through it frame by frame.
05-20-2013, 02:40 PM
eatgoodfood
That would be one way, or put the camera on burst.
05-20-2013, 02:42 PM
snakesRkewl
Pretty much all of the tongue shots I've gotten from albino to pastel to bumblbee to yellowbelly to every other morph I can think of has a red tongue with white tips.
