A question about sex...

I've never seen this subject posted before, sorry if it's a repeat.

I bred a male spider to a female pastel this season. 4 eggs. All hatched. I got one pastel and three normals.

In about a week or so, my female spider, which bred a male pastel, is due to lay.

My question is if any of the breeders who have worked with morphs a lot (I'm not new to this, but I worked with burms in the past), can tell me if they have noticed a higher percentage of their offspring carrying traits if it came from the mother or father? For example did you produce more pastels if it was a male pastel in the breeding or female pastel in the breeding? Or if it doesn't matter or if you never noticed?

I will certainly be paying attention to this next clutch as although 4 out of 4 hatching successfully is always great, I was hoping for better odds, morph-wise, than 1 out of 4 with two morphs breeding.

Anyone?

Chris

I'm not experienced but maybe this will help you: I've discussed this with a geneticist and basically you can pretty much count on random distribution with gene inheritance.

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

I'm not experienced but maybe this will help you: I've discussed this with a geneticist and basically you can pretty much count on random distribution with gene inheritance.

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I could swear I read something on here the other day about the male being the gene contributor.

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Originally Posted by twistedtails

I could swear I read something on here the other day about the male being the gene contributor.

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I highly doubt that; whether male or female the percentage of outcomes remain the same. If males were the only gene contributor then people would not be holding back all these morph females and there would be no combo morphs.

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

I highly doubt that; whether male or female the percentage of outcomes remain the same. If males were the only gene contributor then people would not be holding back all these morph females and there would be no combo morphs.

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I'm not by any means saying it is true. I thought it was kinda funny myself. I wish I knew what thread it was so I could refence it:confused:

Well the proof is in the pudding, er hatchlings, and the only morph I got was inherited from the pastel mother, not the spider sire.

I suppose it is just random luck/unluck. There's a breeder up here in Canada who hatched out six babies from a pied/het pied breeding. Six Pieds!!!

Chris