How can a male snake be a "female maker" or "male maker"?

[OhhWatALoser]

Sure do. My point is is that he has a much better grasp on it than you do. Most people I talk to understand how it works... Not sure why its so hard for you to?

lol you read it really?

From this breeding, we get a 1:1 ratio of animals with a ZcZ+ genotype to animals with a Z+W genotype. All of these animals express the wild-type phenotype. Because all of the females get their W-chromosome from the mother and their Z-chromosome from the father, none of them carry the coral glow mutation. However, any males in the clutch will be heterozygous for coral glow because all of them will get one Z-chromosome containing the mutation for coral glow from the mother. Note that it is IMPOSSIBLE to obtain a female expressing the wild-type phenotype to carry a mutant Z-linked allele - therefore, there is no such thing as a female het coral glow.

Read past the OP

Randy, I think I might have found the thread you were talking about. A male banana to female pinstripe produced a male banana...

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...80#post1390980

So this is at least one instance where the offspring do not follow the expectations for a Z-linked mutation. I'd really like to see information on the parents of the rest of the male bananas and coral glows out there. I know there aren't too many.

Now we have hundreds of instances.

Anyways I'm done beating a dead horse. I explained how it works and how it is sex linked. It's not some unexplainable anomaly and does happen in other animals as well as people.

Keep on keeping on

You posted a few links that do not explain the anomaly we are seeing and an explanation that goes against all available information.