Posted By: Anonymous
Genetics and coloring questions and one idea ;) - 12/31/07 04:04 PM
Ok, Color genetics are a completely new things to me in sugar gliders. I do know a LITTLE about breeding for color in horses though, so it can't be too far different.
I was reading about the leus and outcrossing them can someone explain the 100% 66% and 33% leu het...how do you know the percentages of an animal that is a standard color?
Does 33% mean that there is only a 33% chance that it carries the gene OR only 33% of the offspring produced will in face have color if paired with a leu or a 100% leu het?
I know that in horses Overo to Overo (a color pattern) can produce whats called Lethal White syndrome 25% of the time, which is fatal, so in horses there is no such thing as a homozygous overo, b/c the gene is fatal. Does this apply to suggies with any color pattern (more specificly Mosaic or leu)?
Now an idea...
When I had horses and needed to test for genetic factors or homozygosity I sent hair and or blood samples to UC Davis, now they also do dogs/cats/cows/llamas etc. My Idea was that it would be neat if we could have them do genetics on gliders. http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/
-Nickie-
I was reading about the leus and outcrossing them can someone explain the 100% 66% and 33% leu het...how do you know the percentages of an animal that is a standard color?
Does 33% mean that there is only a 33% chance that it carries the gene OR only 33% of the offspring produced will in face have color if paired with a leu or a 100% leu het?
I know that in horses Overo to Overo (a color pattern) can produce whats called Lethal White syndrome 25% of the time, which is fatal, so in horses there is no such thing as a homozygous overo, b/c the gene is fatal. Does this apply to suggies with any color pattern (more specificly Mosaic or leu)?
Now an idea...
When I had horses and needed to test for genetic factors or homozygosity I sent hair and or blood samples to UC Davis, now they also do dogs/cats/cows/llamas etc. My Idea was that it would be neat if we could have them do genetics on gliders. http://www.vgl.ucdavis.edu/
-Nickie-