Bee x Bee

[dreese88]

as for the pin, its proven it has a homozygous form, but it looks exactly the same. so you breed a pin to a pin and you would get 25% normal 50% het pin 25% homozygous pin. but you can't tell the pins apart, so i would assume everyone would call them 33% homozygous pins or you could call them 66% hets also, but i think 33% homo sounds better lol. never seen them marketed tho.

I'm interested to see where you saw that the Pin has a proven homo form. I've not read or heard anything other than speculation that BHB's is indeed homozygous.

[OhhWatALoser]

I'm interested to see where you saw that the Pin has a proven homo form. I've not read or heard anything other than speculation that BHB's is indeed homozygous.

I looked but i couldn't find it, but it was a little tid bit written by Brain, i read it over a year ago, about we he talked about the pin having a homo form and he had a male that was bred to different females and produced all pins and i remeber he recorded the different clutches and had the odds of him hitting pin 100% of the time and pin being dominate which means 1/2 chance for each egg to be pin, was something like a 100,000,000 to 1, so that was enough proof for me. which i did some quick math and that would be somewhere around 30 eggs, all hitting pin.

I exchange emails with him and a few months ago i asked him about it, to confirm it and he said that he has proven pin to have a homo form. but he didn't go into detail about what i said above. I could make a suggestion for him to post something about it on the forum here for everyone to see, mayb he'll take the time to do it.

and to clear up the whole het thing....
genes come in sets of 2
het aka heterozygous means only having 1 gene
homo aka homozygous means having both genes
both resessive and co-dom can be het, just means they only have 1 gene. het albino is obviously het and albino is homo, lesser is het and BEL is homo, pastel is het, super pastel is homo.
dominate genes do not have a homo form

[Kryptonian]

So then your 50 % het pins are actually just pins with one copy of the gene and your 25% homo pins are pins with 2 copies of the pin gene.

for this reason i prefer using the term co dom since when i think het, i am visioning an animal that is carrying 1 copy of a reccssive gene so you cant see it. when you say het pin it is confusing since if the animal is carrying 1 copy of a codom gene it is going to be visual.
this also makes me think that red axanthics should be considered a super form of a co dom gene since het reds look obvious, you know they are het since the one copy of the red gene is visible.

[dreese88]

this also makes me think that red axanthics should be considered a super form of a co dom gene since het reds look obvious, you know they are het since the one copy of the red gene is visible.

I think they are, I always have considered them as such at least

[Kingmorph69]

Im almost positive that the pin and the spider are simply dominant genes with no super form. i also know that spider to spider is pretty much a lethal gene, and if you do produce spiders they will probably have a very bad "wobble" just like a lot of the womas, because of severe imbreeding.



just my 2 cents.

[AaronP]

Im almost positive that the pin and the spider are simply dominant genes with no super form. i also know that spider to spider is pretty much a lethal gene, and if you do produce spiders they will probably have a very bad "wobble" just like a lot of the womas, because of severe imbreeding.



just my 2 cents.

And what evidence do you have to back these statements up?

[pankthesnake]

I looked but i couldn't find it, but it was a little tid bit written by Brain, i read it over a year ago, about we he talked about the pin having a homo form and he had a male that was bred to different females and produced all pins and i remeber he recorded the different clutches and had the odds of him hitting pin 100% of the time and pin being dominate which means 1/2 chance for each egg to be pin, was something like a 100,000,000 to 1, so that was enough proof for me. which i did some quick math and that would be somewhere around 30 eggs, all hitting pin.

I exchange emails with him and a few months ago i asked him about it, to confirm it and he said that he has proven pin to have a homo form. but he didn't go into detail about what i said above. I could make a suggestion for him to post something about it on the forum here for everyone to see, mayb he'll take the time to do it.

and to clear up the whole het thing....
genes come in sets of 2
het aka heterozygous means only having 1 gene
homo aka homozygous means having both genes
both resessive and co-dom can be het, just means they only have 1 gene. het albino is obviously het and albino is homo, lesser is het and BEL is homo, pastel is het, super pastel is homo.
dominate genes do not have a homo form

Dominant genes DO have a homo form, its just that its visually the same as the het form. The only difference between dominant and co-dom genes are the lack of a visually different super form with the dominant genes.

[Nae]

Dominant genes DO have a homo form, its just that its visually the same as the het form. The only difference between dominant and co-dom genes are the lack of a visually different super form with the dominant genes.

This. Heterozygous is one allele, homozygous is two alleles. Every gene of every creature can be one or the other. Really it's semantics, that dominant has no visible super (homozygous) form but has a visible het form, co-dom has a visible het form and a distinctively different super (homozygous) form, and recessive has only a visible Homozygous form (excluding red axanthics which is just more semantics).

Whether the homozygous form is visibly different from het, lethal, or has genetic problems doesn't change the fact that the allele has 2 mutations (homo) as opposed to one (het).

[OhhWatALoser]

Dominant genes DO have a homo form, its just that its visually the same as the het form. The only difference between dominant and co-dom genes are the lack of a visually different super form with the dominant genes.

This. Heterozygous is one allele, homozygous is two alleles. Every gene of every creature can be one or the other. Really it's semantics, that dominant has no visible super (homozygous) form but has a visible het form, co-dom has a visible het form and a distinctively different super (homozygous) form, and recessive has only a visible Homozygous form (excluding red axanthics which is just more semantics).

Whether the homozygous form is visibly different from het, lethal, or has genetic problems doesn't change the fact that the allele has 2 mutations (homo) as opposed to one (het).

incorrect, co-dom het and homo forms do not have to be visually different

the fact that there is a homo form makes it co-dom, lacking the homo form makes it dominate, that IS the difference. I though the same thing but....

part of an email I sent this to brian a while ago, right after his snakebytes episode on genetics...

but would the pin having a super form make it a co-dom? I was under the impression that it had to be visually different in het and homo form. If that is the case that really complicates things.... i mean how can you classify spider same thing as a pin then. doesn't it have a homo form thats just lethal so they just don't exist. or has that been proven? but the woma is considered co-dom, since pearl looks different, but thats also lethal in the homo form. so the homo form really doesn't exist (or exist that long).

his response to that part...

We think we have proven that pins are co-dom. They do not need to look different, just have the genetics that make all pins when bred to something. Time will tell and we will keep everyone posted with our results this season.

that was Aug 15th

btw Het Red Axanthics are co-dom, because they are the hetrozygous form of the red axanthic. just like a russo het lucy. people need to stop thinking het automatically means recessive.

Im almost positive that the pin and the spider are simply dominant genes with no super form. i also know that spider to spider is pretty much a lethal gene, and if you do produce spiders they will probably have a very bad "wobble" just like a lot of the womas, because of severe imbreeding.



just my 2 cents.

not due to inbreeding at all just goes with the gene, and I've never herd of a woma with a wobble and no one has been able to lock down on the spider wobble, some have it some don't, out crossing really doesn't have an effect, breeding "no wobble" spider doesn't seem to work. just seems to be random. My spider doesn't wobble at all, but her offspring might.

spider having a suspected lethal form probally makes it the least inbreed morph out there.