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Elaphefan
at Fri Mar 17 00:01:32 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Elaphefan ]
Bechtel in his studies of leucism in Texas Rat Snakes found that the trait was autosomal recessive. He also studied the trait in Alligators and Axolotis.
He found that the skin of leucistic animals cannot support the two basic types of pigment cells.
You seem to describe a trait that shows incomplete dominance. This begs the question, how do you know that the leucistic rat snake that was breed was not a carrier for a gene that was not phenotipically expresses due to the expression of the leucistic trait?
Who did the study and where were the results published? Do you have a photo of one of the F1's so that we can see what one looks like?
Respectfully,
Rick
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RE: Texas Rat vs Black Rat Snake - Elaphefan, Fri Mar 17 00:01:32 2006