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Paul Hollander
at Sat Jun 2 17:33:32 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]
if it has functional tyrosinase, then it is T-positive. In other words, everything that is not T-negative is T-positive. A boawoman caramel has some melanin pigment, so it has to have functional tyrosinase, making it T-positive. And if it is lighter than normal, it is an albino. The boawoman caramel is definitely lighter than normal. So it seems to me that a boawoman caramel qualifies as a T-positive albino.
Also, if (as seems likely) a paradigm boa has a boawoman caramel mutant gene paired with a Sharp albino mutant gene, and if you describe a paradigm boa as a T-positive albino, then it is hard to avoid the logical conclusion that a snake with two boawoman caramel mutant genes is also a T-positive albino.
Paul Hollander
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Technically ... - Paul Hollander, Sat Jun 2 17:33:32 2007