I have a simple question...

[Brandon.O]

Somewhere in the near future im looking to buy a male boa for my beautiful female......if the male is a 100% albino 50% possible het anery would i get any morphs or would i then have to breed the offspring to something else to produce a morph ?

[tigerlily]

I went ahead and moved this to the Boa section, even though this is a genetics question.

Is your female normal? If so, then you would not produce any morphs. Your female would have to be het albino as well. (assuming albino is a simple recessive trait in boas) You would produce normal babies that had a 50% chance of being het for albino.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

Ya brandon, We need more info on your female genetic wise. When you breed 100% het to a 100% het you get
1/4 homo(visable morph
1/2 het
1/4 normal
Therefore making 66% hets because you have a 2 out of 3 chance of picking out a het from the litter.

[mr~python]

When you breed 100% het to a 100% het you get
1/4 homo(visable morph
1/2 het
1/4 normal
Therefore making 66% hets because you have a 2 out of 3 chance of picking out a het from the litter.

you also have to remeber that, that's just statistics. 1/4 of the clutch is not always going to be a visible morph, same with 1/4 of it being normal or 1/2 of it being heterozygous.

Brandon, if your female is normal the statistics say half of the litter will be normal and half of the litter will be heterozygous for albinism (and 25% het for anery? (tell me is thats correct))

check this out. http://ballpythons.ca/genetics.html since it is a ball python page some of the mutations on the list may not be the same as far as recessive, co-dominant, or dominant with boas but it still works the same.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

If one of them is normal and 1 is 100% het albino and 50% het anery, 1/2 of the littler will be het albino, half will be normal, you won't know if anyof them are het anery until you prove out the 50% het anery. Remember, 50% is just a way of saying 1 out of 2 will be het, therefore you have a 50% chance of one of the "normal" babies being 100% het.

[mr~python]

you have a 25% chance for each hatchling to be het anery. i already knew that i just didnt know if it was called 25% het anery.

If one of them is normal and 1 is 100% het albino and 50% het anery, 1/2 of the littler will be het albino, half will be normal

that is incorrect. that's just statistics, its not definite. all of them can be normals or all of them can be het albino.

[recycling goddess]

my head hurts...

[Laooda]

I second that! lol


(You did post A "simple" question, right)?!?!? joke...

[mr~python]

would i get any morphs or would i then have to breed the offspring to something else to produce a morph ?

i forgot this.

you would have to breed the offspring back to the male and if you're lucky one of the offspring you bred to the male would be het for albinism and (again) statistics say for every 4 hatchlings you will get 1 albino, 2 heterozygous animals, and one normal. again, thats not definite.

[Pork Chops N' Corn Bread]

that is incorrect. that's just statistics, its not definite. all of them can be normals or all of them can be het albino.

Just curious, where did you see that at?