Stripe X Stripe =

[Jungle Jen]

OK I have heard varying opinions. Can someone tell me what offspring you produce when you breed a stripe to a stripe, and what you get if you breed a stripe to a het stripe?

Thanks in advance.

[python_diva_06]

by my calculations (anyone feel free to correct me)if you breed a stripe to a stripe you sould get all stripes and if you breed a stripe to a het stripe you'll get a 50-50 stripe and double het.
like i said anyone feel free to correct this

[chappy]

I know absolutely nothing about corn genetics, but if you breed a stripe to a het stripe how would you get double hets? What would they be double het for? Assuming its simple recessive wouldn't you get 50% striped and 50% 100% het striped? Or is that what you meant python_diva_06?

[Cake]

Stripe X stripe yeilds 100% stripped
Stripe X het stripe yeilds 50% stripped and 50% het stripe

so you would be correct chappy, that if it is a simple recessive trait.

[Jungle Jen]

OK, what I was told was if I bred stripe to stripe I would get ugly blotchy corns??? and I needed to breed stripe to het stipe in order to get nice stripes?

[Simon]

Originally posted by Jungle Jen
OK, what I was told was if I bred stripe to stripe I would get ugly blotchy corns??? and I needed to breed stripe to het stipe in order to get nice stripes?

Huh?
why is that?

Well who ever told you that don't know what they're talking about....
cause I surely don't understand what they're talking about....

assuming that both striped are not het for anything else
striped x striped = striped
striped x het striped = 50% striped and 50% het striped.....

good luck and have fun~!

[wyz]

Originally posted by Jungle Jen
OK, what I was told was if I bred stripe to stripe I would get ugly blotchy corns??? and I needed to breed stripe to het stipe in order to get nice stripes?

Good one ! :rolleyes:

I'd say that the best way of getting great looking stripes is by breeding 2 great looking stripes together..

By breeding a stripe to a HET stripe, this is where you can get not so good looking stripes since you don't know how good is the stripe gene in the HET snake.

I'd like to read the reasoning behind the quoted affirmation if you can get it.. We never know, it might make sense but I'd be amazed..

WYZ

[vanderkm]

The confusion may have arisn over the fact that not all corns that look striped are in fact genetically striped - some are extreme striped motleys (though the type of stripe seen on those is different from that in real striped - it can be hard to tell them apart). If someone bred a striped to a striped motely that looked like a pure striped they would produce very irregular, blotchy looking motley stripes and that could lead them to the conclusion that it was better to breed striped to het than to another striped to get good ones.

As others have said, breeding striped to striped will produce all striped corns, if both are pure striped. The interrelationship between striped and motley can really confuse things here! The more you know about the parents and genetic line behind the parent stock, the better your chance of getting good stripes (or any other morph for that matter). As WYZ says - hets are often a risk because you don't know how good their parents were,

mary v.

[Simon]

Originally posted by vanderkm
The confusion may have arisn over the fact that not all corns that look striped are in fact genetically striped - some are extreme striped motleys (though the type of stripe seen on those is different from that in real striped - it can be hard to tell them apart). If someone bred a striped to a striped motely that looked like a pure striped they would produce very irregular, blotchy looking motley stripes and that could lead them to the conclusion that it was better to breed striped to het than to another striped to get good ones.


Hey good point mary~
I didn't even think of that when I heard the stiped x stiped = weirdos....LOL...
but yeah you're definitely right about that~~~