Breeding Colors
Colors
Leucistic -white sugar glider with black eyes.
Also called a Leu. Leu het - Usually a gray glider that has one parent that is a Leu so it carries one copy of the Leu gene.
If bred with another Leucistic or Leu Het glider the joeys could be Leu's Black Eyed White - Another name for a leucistic, also called BEW.
Albino - An albino is a white sugar glider with red eyes. Also called a T- albino.
Cremeno - A cremeno is an off-white sugar glider, with light cream markings and burgundy eyes. Also called a T+ albino.
White Face - A white face can be blond or gray.
Standard - See HERE. Some breeders sell standard variations, such as cinnamon. Standards can vary from grey to brownish to reddish, but don't believe that these should be sold as a color, other than standard, because standards can change color due to environmental issues. This is too hard to regulate.
Lion - A lion is a golden brown sugar glider. They are a standard variation, and the only standard variation believe truly exists.
Mosaic - A sugar glider with white patches. Also called white variation and ring tail.
Does not include white tip sugar gliders.
White Tip - A sugar glider with a white tip on it's tail. A white tip can be standard or white face.
Platinum - A silvery grey sugar glider.
Genetics Recessive Inheritance: Example One - Both parents carry a normal color gene (H) and a recessive color gene (h). They are (Hh). The parents show the normal color. Offspring carry (Hh), do not carry (HH), or show (hh) the color. Example Two - One parent shows the recessive color gene (hh) and one parent is normal color (HH). ALL offspring will carry the recessive gene (Hh) because the parent that shows the color only has that gene to pass. More about recessive is below.
Dominant Inheritance: Example - One parent (Ff) has a dominant color gene (F). This gene over rides the normal color gene (f). The parent shows the dominant color. When mated with a normal color sugar glider (ff) the offspring either get the color (Ff) or do not (ff). There are no carriers, if the gene is present it shows. (mosaic and white face) Dominant is pretty easy. The offspring show the color if they get the gene and you only need one of a certain color parent to pass it. One mosaic and one standard will have mosaic babies. The babies that are not mosaic will not carry the mosaic gene. White face is the same, if it shows it's there. If it doesn't show it's not there.
Recessive Colors: Leucistic, Albino, and Cremeno
Dominant Colors: Mosaic and White Face Unknown Colors: White Tip, Lion, Platinum Het: Het is short for heterozygous, and means possessing two different forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. In this case we are talking about the color gene. A het is a normal color glider that carries a recessive color gene. Possible Het: A normal color sugar glider that has a chance to carry a recessive color gene. Recessive Breeding This is the most confusing part of color breeding. Recessive breeding is where we get hets and possible hets. Recessive colors include leucistic, albino, and cremeno. The following information applies to all of them but I will use leucistic as my example color. Normal applies to any sugar glider that is not from the leucistic line. Leucistic + Leucistic =
Colors
Leucistic -white sugar glider with black eyes.
Also called a Leu. Leu het - Usually a gray glider that has one parent that is a Leu so it carries one copy of the Leu gene.
If bred with another Leucistic or Leu Het glider the joeys could be Leu's Black Eyed White - Another name for a leucistic, also called BEW.
Albino - An albino is a white sugar glider with red eyes. Also called a T- albino.
Cremeno - A cremeno is an off-white sugar glider, with light cream markings and burgundy eyes. Also called a T+ albino.
White Face - A white face can be blond or gray.
Standard - See HERE. Some breeders sell standard variations, such as cinnamon. Standards can vary from grey to brownish to reddish, but don't believe that these should be sold as a color, other than standard, because standards can change color due to environmental issues. This is too hard to regulate.
Lion - A lion is a golden brown sugar glider. They are a standard variation, and the only standard variation believe truly exists.
Mosaic - A sugar glider with white patches. Also called white variation and ring tail.
Does not include white tip sugar gliders.
White Tip - A sugar glider with a white tip on it's tail. A white tip can be standard or white face.
Platinum - A silvery grey sugar glider.
Genetics Recessive Inheritance: Example One - Both parents carry a normal color gene (H) and a recessive color gene (h). They are (Hh). The parents show the normal color. Offspring carry (Hh), do not carry (HH), or show (hh) the color. Example Two - One parent shows the recessive color gene (hh) and one parent is normal color (HH). ALL offspring will carry the recessive gene (Hh) because the parent that shows the color only has that gene to pass. More about recessive is below.
Dominant Inheritance: Example - One parent (Ff) has a dominant color gene (F). This gene over rides the normal color gene (f). The parent shows the dominant color. When mated with a normal color sugar glider (ff) the offspring either get the color (Ff) or do not (ff). There are no carriers, if the gene is present it shows. (mosaic and white face) Dominant is pretty easy. The offspring show the color if they get the gene and you only need one of a certain color parent to pass it. One mosaic and one standard will have mosaic babies. The babies that are not mosaic will not carry the mosaic gene. White face is the same, if it shows it's there. If it doesn't show it's not there.
Recessive Colors: Leucistic, Albino, and Cremeno
Dominant Colors: Mosaic and White Face Unknown Colors: White Tip, Lion, Platinum Het: Het is short for heterozygous, and means possessing two different forms of a particular gene, one inherited from each parent. In this case we are talking about the color gene. A het is a normal color glider that carries a recessive color gene. Possible Het: A normal color sugar glider that has a chance to carry a recessive color gene. Recessive Breeding This is the most confusing part of color breeding. Recessive breeding is where we get hets and possible hets. Recessive colors include leucistic, albino, and cremeno. The following information applies to all of them but I will use leucistic as my example color. Normal applies to any sugar glider that is not from the leucistic line. Leucistic + Leucistic =
- Leucistic (always)
- Leucistic (50% of the time)
- 100% Leu Het (50% of the time)
- 100% Leu Het (always)
- Leucistic (25% of the time)
- 100% Leu Het (50% of the time)
- Normal (25% of the time)
- 100% Leu Het (50% of the time)
- Normal (50% of the time)
- 66% + 66% = 33%
- 66% + Normal = 33%
- 66% + 50% = 25%-33%
- 50% + 50% = 25%
- 50% + Normal = 25%
