Hi all,

I did a degree in molecular cell biology of which genetics was covered in the first year.

For those of you that wish to learn about genetics the introductory text (which is more than complex enough) is freely available on the web.

Griffiths - introduction to genetic analysis

Hope this helps!

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I tried the link, but as far as I can tell, it is just bits snipped from the book. Can you get the full text?

Oh bugger, they used to have the whole book on it! Hmm looks like I'll be writing a presentation on mendelian genetics and putting it up here!

Before I do that, I'm assuming gecks are diploid and follow mendelian genetics, seems like it but some peeps use standard genetics words wierdly!

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Before going to a lot of work, take a look at Wilmer Miller's Survey of Genetics. The complete text is on the web at Wilmer Jay Miller's web site

From the home page, you have to go to the Contents page (link is on the left edge of the home page). Then the links to the Survey of Genetics are on the Contents page's lower right. The book is in four parts, and each one is fairly sizeable, so I hope you have a fast connection to the web. You might also take a look at the Advances in Classical Genetics paper. Its link is directly above the Survey of Genetics links.

For what it's worth, Miller is an old timer genetics prof. He taught me much or what I know about genetics.

Leopard geckos are diploid, but sex is determined by incubation temperature, so there is no sex linkage in the bird/mammal/fruit fly sense.

I've been following herp genetics for a number of years and can help you out on some of the weird vocabulary. Just post or e-mail me.

Hey,
the general genetics principles are fine (at least I hope so after all the years study I did!) and having had a bit more of a read round I have found which traits are dominant etc. I was just trying to find an easy to understand text for the masses

All I have to do now is get it straight in my head which alleles cause which morphs!

Thanks for your help.

Edit: Sent an email to the site, the full text is up there you just need to search for the bit you want.
try this page.
I own a copy of this book and its a very good introductory text.

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Thanks. That link helped a lot. I moused around a bit. I thought that navigating it on the web was difficult. Using the text would be easier. And some of the illustrations were not on the web version. I was also sorry to see that it fell victim to the sexlinked black fallacy in cats.

Here's a link to the Blue Genes site. It's fairly good at introductory genetics. I think it could be improved, though. It also falls victim to the sexlinked black fallacy in cats.

Blue Genes Main Menu