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Posted by: Ralph at Tue Feb 28 21:39:53 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Ralph ]

From my understanding sometimes these genes for white and piebald can be deleterious to essential organs. It could be that a piebald ball with a white head would not develop correctly congenitally and not make it past its developmental stages. For example, I know that in some animals like white Boxers (dog) the white gene can lead to malformation of the eyes and ears internally as well as make them susceptible to cancers etc. I also read somewhere that horses homozygous for white cannot be born because for some reason the white gene affects the development of nerves in utero. It could be that the head of the piebald ball python must have relatively normal pigmentation in order to develop properly to live. Or it could be that we haven't been lucky enough to see one as cool looking as to have a white head. Just my 2 cents...

Rafael

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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

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