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    banana "male maker"

    Can someone please explain the statement "male maker" associated with bananas? I just saw an add advertising female banana combos guaranteed to make both sexes. What does this all mean?
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    Has there been any scientific study on this phenomenon?? Based on pure probability it sounds bogus, but obviously it happens…I was just curious on what progress has been made on this front
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    Re: banana "male maker"

    Scientific evidence or study? Definitely not. Just like anything else with the captive reptile breeding industry, all we have to go on is the information we gather and share amongst ourselves. We aren't scientists, so we do the best we can

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    Re: banana "male maker"

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    We aren't scientists
    You might be surprised to find out just how many scientists there are in this hobby. The sum total of captive herp knowledge is NOT on the internet. In Gainesville alone, I know three PhD Biologists who keep and breed multiple species, and between them they have never spent more than 5 minutes on a reptile forum. Just saying...
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    i dont think scientists that also breed BPs would be enough.

    you would need filthy rich scientists, willing to pay for genetic sequencing of quite a lot of BPs.

    right now all we know is that there are quite a few male CGs and bananas that will, if bred to a female that isnt a CG or banana, will produce mostly male banana offspring and female non-banana offspring. scientists are not some magical people that can somehow draw more conclusions with just the same limited data. the opposite may be true: while regular people will readily draw conclusions based on just 10 or 20 eggs, scientists may realize that its not enough eggs to draw any statistically significant conclusion.

    a few breedings would be interesting and have not been explored in depth, like: male-marker male banana to female banana, male-maker male banana to female super banana, male super banana fathered by a male-maker male to female banana. these could give more clues, but these are hard to do, for a normal breeder as well as for a breeder that happens to be a scientist.

    apart from that, genetic sequencing is the way to get more data.
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    So glad you posted this thread I was wondering about this yesterday and now I got my answer
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