Double het?

[Shabutie]

What does double het mean? and what is the difference between that and a regular het?

 

[midwestreptiles]

Different genetic traits or morphs are located on different allele's. So if you have two different traits like translucent and hypo a lizard that is double het would be het for 1 gene like hypo and het for another 1 like translucent. Vs. a beardie that is just " het. " would only be carrying a single heterozygous gene. Which could be any recessive genetic trait. Currently i believe there are only three from beardies. Hypo, translucent, and recessive smoothie.

 

[citrusdragon]

Het is a "non visual" carrier of a certain trait (hypo, trans. rec. leather) requiring a het or visual mate to produce some visual offspring.

Double hets are usually het for hypomelanism and translucent.

Jeff