Ultramel

[slither61]

Hi all,

I have bought an Ultramel 50% het anery male.

At some time in the future I would like to produce some golddust,I have been told that putting a caramel female to him will not produce G D's I have been told to use a butter mot or butter will this produce golddusts.

Can someone explain why caramel will not work? why butter will.

I have a female butter but I will need a caramel if caramel has to be used.

I am trying to start to study the genetics book but it is hard going for a novice, can anyone help please.

Thanks

slither61

[Serpwidgets]

Welcome. This is a good way to practice the genetics, by using real-life scenarios.

You're dealing with recessive mutant genes at two different locations. A golddust is homozygous for caramel at the caramel locus, and het for ultra/amel at the albino locus. In order to be an ultramel, an individual must inherit the ultra mutant from one parent and the amel mutant from the other.

(And in order to be a caramel it must inherit the caramel mutant from both parents, so be aware that you will not produce caramels in the first generation regardless of what you cross to your ultramel.)

Your ultramel is this:



And a butter is this:


And a caramel (not het amel) is this:


And you want to produce this: (A golddust)


(Notice that if you breed the ultramel to the caramel, all offspring will inherit an A+ from the caramel and they will all be non-ultramels because of it.)

Breeding Ultramel X Butter will produce some ultramels that are this genotype:

[billv]

If you have a female butter (which is homo amel and caramel), 1/2 the offspring would be ultramels and the other 1/2 amels, all het for caramel (by breeding her to the ultramel).
Then you could breed the sibling ultramel het caramel to the sibling amel het caramel, and you'd surely get a few golddusts that way.