Split to lutino?

[stephb]

I recently purchased a male scaly for my "normal" female scaly and he was sold to me as split to lutino. When the seller was telling me he was talking so fast about genetics, I felt my head spin four times and before I knew it, I was in my car wondering "what on earth?"

Would love and explanation in laymans terms!

Thank-you!

[avinet]

May 17, 2012 20:28:30 GMT 10 stephb said:

I recently purchased a male scaly for my "normal" female scaly and he was sold to me as split to lutino. When the seller was telling me he was talking so fast about genetics, I felt my head spin four times and before I knew it, I was in my car wondering "what on earth?"

Would love and explanation in laymans terms!

Thank-you!

A male that is split to lutino means that although it looks like a normal Scaly, it is carrying the gene for a lutino. That lutino gene is a sex-linked gene so that means that the father can pass it on to a daughter which will be lutino in appearance, but although he can pass it on to a son, it will not be lutino, but a normal colour.

On average half the daughters will be lutino and the other half will be normal. All the sons will be normal in appearance, but half of them will be split to lutino. The only way to find out if a son is split to lutino is by breeding - there is no visual clue to a split lutino.

I did a full description of sex-linked mutation genetics at aussiebirds.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=colour&thread=10314&page=1 - two posts were made going into the details, with diagrams!

cheers,

Mike

[stephb]

Thanks Mike, Im always eagerly awaiting a reply from you. So knowledgeable, no brown'nosing intended!