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Genetics For Herpers
 Genetics
For Herpers is a great way to learn genetics. It starts with the basics and
teaches everything you need to know in order to understand the role that
genetics plays in breeding. The book is 84 pages (7½" x 5½") and includes
over 120 illustrations plus a glossary. Authored by Charles Pritzel, private
printing.
Things you will learn:
· What genes are
· What genes do
· What happens when genes are changed
· What homozygous and heterozygous mean
· How to use and read genetic notation and symbols
· What genotypes and phenotypes mean
· What dominant, codominant, and recessive mean
· How genes are inherited
· How to predict outcomes
· What possible hets are
· How traits can mask each other
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those who want to learn more, bonus advanced topics:
· Trait linkage
· Proving out new traits
· Proving out possible hets
· Removing undesirable genes
· Inbreeding
· Hybridization
· Sex-linked traits
VMS is proud to offer copies autographed by the author at no extra charge.
Copies of Genetics For Herpers can be shipped with your VMS reptile order at
$10.00 each. Simply let us know during the order process and we will add it
into your invoice total.
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2008 Cornsnake Morph Guide
 The
2008 Cornsnake Morph Guide is available now! This year's Edition is 140
pages. It contains discussions and descriptions of over 100 morphs with 122
color photos, loads of illustrations, an explanation of the way different
morphs are created/reproduced, and an easy-to-follow genetics section which
illustrates the basics behind the genetic morphs.
Features this year
include:
 New morphs:
terrazzo and kastanie.
Breeding shortcuts
for combining genes.
How to prove out Mendelian genes.
· A glossary.
· A morph-name cross-reference. Details what components are associated with a
given morph name.
· Condensed morph price guide.
 · A single and double genetic morph frequency chart.
· The Morph Tree, which shows relationships between morphs.
· "Coming attractions," a discussion of potential up-and-coming genes/morphs.
· Eye colors.
· An "Other Genes" section discussing masque, stargazer, and short-tail mutants.
· Advanced Genetics topics.
· A discussion of allelic mutations.
· The "Neural Crest Migration" model of pattern formation.
Copies of the 2007 Cornsnake Morph Guide can be shipped with your VMS reptile order at $14.00 each. Simply let us know during the order process and we will add it into your invoice total.
Note: this book is scheduled for release on March 17th, orders placed now
will be shipped out after that date.
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