What Is The Marble Gene In Bettas

I have a koi betta with the marble gene.

What is the marble gene in bettas.

Because the marble gene is a transposon its color is unstable and often marble bettas will develop more or less color throughout their entire lives. He s beautiful but is. Their bodies are usually mostly solid color although they carry the marble gene so variations are to be expected. Woke up this morning and he has some blue on him now.

Dragon red dragon betta. He arrived yesterday and his colors were black red and white. Marble is a name for a transposon jumping gene. With bettas we study genes to understand and modify through breeding particular traits like color pattern and fin style.

Genes are responsible for a variety of things. A royal blue betta is blue because it has the blue gene. But they all carry the gene. A dna sequence that can change its position within the genome as a result marble bettas often have splotches of pigment or areas without pigment all over their body and fins.

These patterns are not usually defined by colors and multiple patterns can appear on a fish making for a large range of possibilities. So crossbreeding a marble and a solid colored betta fish will usually result in a spawn of mostly solid colored fish with a few marble patterned bettas thrown into the mix. Marble gene or fin rot hello i have noticed that in 4 days the top of my betta s fin is changing to a white color could this be an infection or the marble gene i m not really sure but he hasn t been showing any fin damage or any behavior that a sick fish would have i ve had him for 74 days in his 25litre tank. A result of the.

The marble gene influences the solid color in unpredictable ways. The bettas will have a pale flesh colored face no matter what color the rest of their bodies are. If the solid colored parent betta carries the marble gene the percentage of marbled fry increases. You are bound to get at the least a quarter marbled fry.

Transposons have the ability to do two. It is a partially recessive genetic so if you have a betta with the marbling gene and you breed it to a betta with no marbling genetics you might get a few marbled fry. In fact marbling is pretty common. Now let s say you breed 2 marbled betta.