Now,
I know that you want to know what colors will give your pair. Knowing the
color of your gerbil pair, usually isn't enough to guess what color will
be the babies. There is so much recessives genes hidden that most of the
time, you'll have to wait for the babies color to know the genetics of the
parents. But if you know the color of the grand parents, you may know some
of their genetics.
I'll
give you some exemples that may help you to understand how to guess the
babies color. I'll take for granted that you red all the previous pages
about genetics.
You
can also go to the "Colors" page to have an idea of the colors I
speak of.
Recessive
genes
When
a parent is a certain color (beside Agouti), you can be sure that the
babies will carry that color as a recessive.
ex:
Black (aa) + Agouti (AA),
will give Agouti babies with Aa
Argente
(pp) + Agouti (PP), will give
Agouti babies with Pp
Lilac
(aapp)+
Agouti (AAPP), will give Agouti babies with AaPp
You'll
notice that I removed all the other genes to make it simple.
Exemple
1:
When
2 Agouti babies with Aa are
put together to form a new pair (let's say that it's 2 different
families), here's what happen:
In
blue is the parents and
their genetic
In
yellow is the possible
allele each of them may give to the babies
In
pink is the new possible
genetics of the babies.
|
Male Aa |
| A |
a |
| Female
Aa |
A |
AA |
Aa |
| a |
Aa |
aa |
So
if you remember the previous page, you'll know that:
AA
is Agouti
Aa
is still an Agouti
aa
is a black gerbil.
Exemple
2:
You
have a new pair and the breeder was nice enough to give you the genetic
of your new gerbils.
Here
is what you have:
Male:
Lilac: aaCEGpp
Female:
Argente Golden: AaCEGpp
To
make it simple, I'll keep only the concerned genes.
Male:
Lilac: aapp
Female:
Argente Golden: Aapp
In
blue is the parents and
their genetic
In
yellow is the possible
allele each of them may give to the babies
In
pink is the new possible
genetics of the babies.
|
Male aapp |
|
ap |
| Female
Aapp |
Ap |
Aapp |
| ap |
aapp |
Aapp
= Argente Golden
aapp
=
Lilac (That is the combination of Argente golden and black)
You
may ask yourself why I put the 2 genes together in the yellow
area. In the sexual cells, they will give all the genes at the same
time. Not one gene at the time in each sexual cell.
In
the Lilac situation, he will give ap
and ap,
so instead of making 2 columns, you make only one. But the
results will be the same if you do 2 columns.
It's
more or less always the same thing that you'll have to do. Take the info
about your gerbil's genetics and place it in a board, split the alleles
and pair them back to form the babies genetics. If you don't know anything
about the parent's genetics, then you'll have to wait and see the babies!
