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PHLdyPayne
at Fri Oct 12 02:16:42 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]
Brown doesn't need to contain red. Yellow and black pigment can produce a shade of brown. But animal colors don't work like art class color theory or the color wheel.
color in animals are not always simple to figure out. YOu can have no red pigment produced (ie, anery) but still see reddish colors. This doesn't mean the animal can't be anery, it just means there may be more than one way for red coloration to appear. Rainbow boas are very iridescent...light is refracted in a rainbow sheen all over the snake. this will of course include 'reds'.
Snakes can have multiple layers of color..a recessive trait may affect one layer only, but a secondary layer may produce the same color the other layer has suppressed.
kind of confusing but the more I read about genetics for various snakes and reptiles, the more complex it becomes. For instance. Corn snakes have 3 types of anery. Each acts differently and are non compatible to each other. If you breed anery type 1 snake to an anery type 2, you will get normals with hets of one or the other. THis is because the recessive genes are all on the same spot genetically but act slightly different, though all repress red pigment.
Only many years of breeding BRB's will decipher their particular traits genetically. Corn snakes have been around for half a century (give or take a decade) and thus, have been selectively bred extensively...and still new things are being discovered. (the third anery is a recent discovery).
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RE: Anery is appropriate - PHLdyPayne, Fri Oct 12 02:16:42 2007