You should read through the article that Paul linked up to this conversation it opens quite a big door, I see no reason why in reptiles this can't happen especially when there may be a few examples already.. Maybe Paradoxing is exactly this Mosaicing ability, afterall reptiles are not as complex as humans.. Pete Kahl has the Paradox stripe. RDR the Paradox snow, I have a paradox anery, and I have seen pics of burm paradoxing and other pythons and corn snakes. Now let's look into this a little further.
Say there are two ways of these odd animals to develope, The first and more rare and extreme variation being bipaternity sperm fertilization ie. Mosaic, and the other is incomplete homzygous genenetics not aligning correctly causing only a small area to be a single color like some paradox albino balls. There was one paradox albino ball that comes under the Mosaic idea and there are some that come under incomplete homozygous idea. After reading the article and then going out and looking up so more about this idea I have to say there's quite a bit out there about bipaternity sperm fertilization that seems to hold water....

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• Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 08:41:18 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - Corey Woods, Tue Feb 28 08:57:38 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 09:04:55 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 09:05:50 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM.... - toshamc, Tue Feb 28 11:34:36 2006
• Tosha..the tiger gene in retics is codom - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:36:33 2006
• RE: Tosha..the tiger gene in retics is codom - RandyRemington, Wed Mar 1 07:44:49 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - Brandon Osborne, Tue Feb 28 16:32:22 2006
• Re-Read my post..... - Corey Woods, Tue Feb 28 09:28:44 2006
• Coreys right, but a hypothesis - JP, Tue Feb 28 10:19:39 2006
• Paul Hollander... - JP, Tue Feb 28 10:42:18 2006
• Bipaterity Sperm Mutations - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:23:24 2006
• RE: Bipaterity Sperm Mutations - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:33:49 2006
• Yep, I am there with ya...more - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:39:26 2006
• RE: Yep, I am there with ya...more - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:46:00 2006
• That's easy - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:47:54 2006
• RE: That's easy - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:51:48 2006
• Pied Crows have black heads - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 12:26:43 2006
• RE: Pied Crows have black heads - JP, Tue Feb 28 12:42:09 2006
• RE: Pied Crows have black heads - Ralph, Tue Feb 28 21:39:53 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - joshhutto, Tue Feb 28 13:54:20 2006
• They were Super's - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 16:14:50 2006
• if two sperm fertilized eachother...np - bpconnection, Tue Feb 28 09:57:03 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM.... - Paul Hollander, Tue Feb 28 10:09:22 2006
• Now that insight opens this question - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 10:18:15 2006
• RE: Now that insight opens this question - morphed, Tue Feb 28 10:28:16 2006
• My parents always said I was a praradox - bpconnection, Tue Feb 28 11:10:24 2006
• I know you were totally joking, but.... - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:20:31 2006
• RE: I know you were totally joking, but.... - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:28:10 2006
• Um, who? - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:26:30 2006
• RE: Um, who? - morphed, Wed Mar 1 08:58:54 2006
• did you see proof??? - JKBREPTILES, Wed Mar 1 09:55:36 2006
• RE: did you see proof??? - morphed, Wed Mar 1 12:11:25 2006
• RE: Things that make you say HMMMMMM........ - morphed, Tue Feb 28 10:21:31 2006
• I think the acrosomal reaction.... - jgjulander, Tue Feb 28 11:17:10 2006
• Did you read the Article? - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:31:03 2006
• Well, ....Were this all went - JKBREPTILES, Tue Feb 28 11:45:53 2006
• and, just to clarify..... - JP, Tue Feb 28 11:54:04 2006