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grich
at Thu Mar 2 17:57:05 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by grich ]
I do have both types of leucistic and do indeed plan on doing breeding trials, but it won't happen until next year. Nevertheless, I think the arguement regarding the different origins of leucistism in black rat snakes versus Texas rat snakes is a moot one, since they have been proven to be genetically the same snake (2002, Urs Utiger et al, Russian Journal of Herpetology, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp.105-124). The potential for leucistism to pop up in either animal independant of the other is there.
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