What do we know about breeding Bananas?

[dr del]

also, I would like to add for the sex link thing to be true, males would be the only ones that could be homozygous. assuming it doesn't jump over to the other chromosome

its interesting to hear there are "mistakes" in other animals, seems to fit with what is public right now.

would be nice to have some community statistics. Like are the few homozygous animals male and how often does a male produce a male?

To my knowledge, no one has proven banana and coral glow compatible. Its just the genes are so damn similar, even down to the mystery males, its just suspected they are.

Surely if it was on the Z chromosome itself then you would have a higher chance of the males in the clutch being bananas than the females?

Isn't it more likely to be tied to the Z chromosome - and it neededn't be in the sex chromosome directly but in DNA that gets passed along with it?

They have found satellite DNA in the more advanced snake species already and some was common to both the Z and W chromosomes and some was specific to the W chromosome.

Say it was tied into one of the ones that was thought to be common to both but altered it slightly so it isn't.

so while both the Z and W have A version that can be passed along they are not the same version?

What I'm groping towards is the possibility it might be recessive in males and needs both sections of satellite DNA of the two Z chromosomes to be the altered version but, since females only have one copy anyway there is no unaltered version to over rule it and it is dominant or co-dominant.

Or is that just horribly complicating the whole thing? It could be completely wrong in any case of course.


dr del