So I was just curiously looking at the calculator and messing around, when I saw that if you breed a hypo motley to a normal, you can only get Hypo OR motley, not both? I wasn’t sure if boa genetics are the same as ball pythons, where you can breed a pastel pinstripe to a normal and get pastel pinstripes. So if any of you guys know, please comment below! I’m really curious if they function differently, or if it’s just a calculator error!
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Hypo and motley are allelic so you will only get one or the other in the offspring. You will get hypos, motleys, and normals but no hypo motleys.
Argentine motley looks like it’s calculated as a non-allelic. Is that correct? (I am pretty n00b on boa genetics)
That’s super interesting! So if I had a hypo motley, and a hypo, that’s the only way to get more hypo motleys ?
And hypothetically, if you bred a Motley (CA) to a Motley (Col), are the different localities able to make supers, or just one/the other? I haven’t seen anything about the genetic mixing of anything that can have a super form! I know the bad news about super motleys but I was still curious about if it’s different strains?
Super Mötley boas don’t survive for long. I think something like 2 years is the longest one has lived.
You need hypo on both sides of the pairing, or a super hypo to a motley works as well.
Another easy way to look at it…
think about allelic combos being considered “ALS” combos, or Act Like Supers.
Essentially if you take a location that a gene is on, 1 copy being het, 2 copies being homozygous/super. A parent can only pass off one copy from that locus/gene location. A single parent can’t pass off both copies from the same location, as each parent gives half the genetic code for the baby.
You mention the example of pastel pinstripe to a normal, and this can give you pastel pinstripes as pastel and pinstripe aren’t on the same location within the genetic makeup.
if a parent is hypo motley, you won’t get any normals, but you’ll get a mix of motleys and hypos.
the same way if you took a black pastel enchi ball python and bred it to a normal, you’d get a mix of Enchi’s and black pastels, but no enchi black pastels and no normals.
maybe that will help get a better idea of how allelic morphs work. The whole “acts like super” thing helped me when i first started looking into it more.
