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In this installment we have a guest post by John from Gecko Boa Reptiles about the ethics of crossing certain genetics and cross breeding properly to isolate genetic traits. We'd like to thank John for giving us permission to post his content. We believe that it is an important topic and that his words explain the topic perfectly.
This article will be specifically targeted toward leopard geckos but it's principles can be applied across the board of breeding reptiles.
Recently ethics when breeding has become a real hot issue among breeders and hobbyist alike, and although it is usually laced with arguments an... [More]
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One of the support tickets we recently received alerted us to an issue that some people have with the calculator and how trade names fit into it. We believe that understanding what trade names are and how to use them will go a long way in helping people enter the correct genetics for their animals.
A genetic trade name is a shorter name given to animals that have a certain set of traits. The name is usually considerably shorter than listing all of the genes that are contained in that particular morph and make it much easier to talk and write about them. For the novice breeder it can, at times, make it more confusing to know exactly what genetics are in the animals they buy.
Lets take RAPTOR as an example t... [More]
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According to biology-online.org a polygenic trait is described as:
Polygenic traits are controlled by two or more than two genes (usually by many different genes) at different loci on different chromosomes. These genes are described as polygenes. Examples of human polygenic inheritance are height, skin colour and weight. Polygenes allow a wide range of physical traits. For instance, height is regulated by several genes so that there will be a wide range of heights in a population.
In Leopard Geckos polygenic traits are also called line bred traits. All the lines of Tangerine, Carrot Tail and non genetic snows are all polygenic. One o... [More]