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Paul Hollander
at Tue Nov 14 17:45:08 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]
>I once read an article that stated scientists injected the proper color cromasome into the patterned area of an albino snakes scale and the scale accepted the proper color but when injected into a leucistic snakes scale it totally rejected color and reamined white, so I'm convinced leucisticisim is a dominant trait.
Brutal facts slay another beautiful theory. Breeding tests have shown that the leucistic mutant gene in the Texas rat snake is recessive to the normal version of the gene. See H. B. Bechtel's paper in the Journal of Heredity back in 1985.
As for leucistic in southern pines, I don't have a clue. But I would like to know what is produced when leucistic is mated to leucistic and when leucistic is mated to normal. And whether leucistics can come out of a normal x normal mating.
Paul Hollander
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