Banana male puzzle solved.

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

BG saw bananas everywhere at the southern show....yet not one Candy or Toffee baby. :confused:

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Are you talking about the Daytona show? Because there were lots of bannanas there. But i did see one Candy witch looked amazing.

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

BG saw bananas everywhere at the southern show....yet not one Candy or Toffee baby. :confused:

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I don't think the community knows how to price them now. At least for toffee's, because now that we know they are just a supped up albino... what are they worth? Males may hold value, but the females should drop like a ROCK!

http://macromeme.com/cat/start-belie...ll-threads.jpg

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

And if anyone wants to talk bananas instead of banana peppers, this is an interesting read.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...nked-Mutations

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I read This one before.. and believe me Punnet Square give me headache sometimes (like double recessive plus fed codoms and I'm lost) Sex Linked mutations...This is Tooo much... I stay with My tiny Hobbyist/Small Breeder status and let Big Boys with Big Gunns ;) do they Job :P

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

And if anyone wants to talk bananas instead of banana peppers, this is an interesting read.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...nked-Mutations

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At the time I was writing that guide, most of the information that was available suggested to me that we were dealing with a standard case of Z-linkage. However, since then most of the information I have been able to find on banana/coral glow males being produced has suggested that this is not actually the case. I will probably revise the guide on my website to describe a hypothetical mutation (similar to the one I fabricated to explain W-linkage) when I get a full understanding of how the banana/cg mutation is inherited.

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Originally Posted by Big Gunns

Where is this thread? Big Gunns would like to see it so he can see who the liars are.

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BG, the thread Randy was referring to is on Bush-League here: http://www.reptileradio.net/reptiler...ad.php?t=21824

Thanks for chipping in Russ. You could rewrite it to talk about color blindness in humans, but then that'd throw the ZW/ZZ out of whack.

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Originally Posted by Ntume

BG is referring to his friend, ozzy who produced 3.1 (3! males) in once clutch I presume.

It's posted over at reptile radio.

greets,

Yaron

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This is what I was thinking, but oh well.

I was just going to say that if it is as simple as sex linked, then that is easy. Obviously you can't produce a male from a male banana if he only passes on his Y chromosome if the banana gene is X linked. However the female passes along the X chromosome and if the banana gene is linked to the X chromosome, then you need a female banana to make male bananas. Which has been the common train of thought anyway.

there is obviously more to it than that though.

Snakes don't ascribe to the XX/XY system. They use the ZZ/ZW system, where males are ZZ and females are ZW, kind of opposite of humans.

BG, your a silly dude. I know exactly how to get a male.....

....make a phone call and write a big check(don't forget all those zeros). Then hope the wife doesn't complain about the hardwood floors she's been wanting for years.

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Originally Posted by mainbutter

Snakes don't ascribe to the XX/XY system. They use the ZZ/ZW system, where males are ZZ and females are ZW, kind of opposite of humans.

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I vaguely remember learning that in high school ....
So then if you have it W linked, that would make sense.

But my question is, how then are males able to produce more female bananas?