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Dwight Good
at Wed Mar 1 23:37:26 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Dwight Good ]
was the first leucistic lindheimer's a result of a clutch of eggs laid by a snake bought by one of those texas zoos to feed to king cobras....after she dropped.....she was fed off???
Bob,
The first recorded leucistic Texas rat snake was caught as a hatchling in 1962. It was a male and was sent to Dr. Bern Bechtel in 1978 on breeding loan. It mated with a normal phase female and then died.
See: (Bechtel, H.B., and E. Bechtel. 1985. Genetics of color mutations in the snake, Elaphe obsoleta. Journal of Heredity. 76:7-11) and (Bechtel, H.B. 1995. Reptile and Amphibian Variants. pp 72-73)
....john groves in 1973 or so...picked up a a white black rat that was wild caught in virginia.....his pop, frank, was told about it and sent john to get it.....i don't know what happened to it.....but that thing was pure white!!!!!
Are you thinking of the albino from Maryland found in 1969? Groves bred this animal (an adult female) and proved the mutation's recessive inheritance. He subsequently provided Bechtel with albino and heterozygous offspring to use in his own breeding trials. Bechtel had acquired an albino from Virginia, but it was captured in 1957 and was proven to be non-allelic with Groves' Maryland strain. See:
Bechtel, H.B. and E. Bechtel. 1981. Albinism in the snake, Elaphe obsoleta. The Journal of Herpetology. 15(4):398-399
Hope this helps,
dg
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RE: leucistic texas & black rat origin - Dwight Good, Wed Mar 1 23:37:26 2006