Quote Originally Posted by OhhWatALoser View Post
I've herd that about coral glows but never really looked into it at all, has there been some males? mayb odd gods really love corals glows? lol like I said I know nothing about that issue. if there hasn;t been any males, it could easily be passed off as sex linked, but 1 male screws that all up.

The homozygous spider has plenty of theories around it, i wrote an article on it, defiantly interesting. Though I think it is the least plausible, but can't be dismissed just yet, i was thinking the other day, what if the homozygous spider looks like a normal ball python? how funny would that be lol. though I find it highly unlikely.

There have been a few male CGs and Bananas. If I recall correctly, I *think* Kevin has stated that the males produce ALL CGs. I had thought it sounded like the gene was sex-linked at first (snakes are the opposite of mammals in that females are the heterogametic sex, ZW, and males are homogametic, ZZ). However, there was something that Kevin had said about it that made it sound less likely to be sex-linked in my mind, but for the moment I can't recall what it was ... (It wasn't the presence of a male -- in a recessive sex-linked gene, it IS possible to produce affected individuals of both sexes; it's just much less likely in the homogametic sex since you need two affected alleles, not just one.) Also, were it sex-linked recessive, we probably would've seen CGs and bananas popping up from breedings using the "normal" males produced from a CG/banana mother. Soooo ...

I guess it might be possible for homozygous spiders to look normal ... I mean, yeah, what if all the normal sibs out of spider x spider breedings just got sold as pets, and not tracked or bred? Though of course if it was bred only once, it would produce ALL spiders, and then we probably would hear about that ... Ya never know, though ...

I also can't, off the top of my head, think of a gene that looks different from the wild-type in heterozygous form, but the same in homozygous form -- but that doesn't mean it isn't possible!