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RE: Been there, done that....

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Posted by: KJUN at Thu Feb 21 10:40:05 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by KJUN ]  
   

>>But how would that explain only one amel out of almost 100 hatchlings from the same parents. If both wc parents where het amels that are descended from released cb snakes then he should have hatched out quite a few more amels than just the one random animal.

Is that the only clutch the SAME parents produced? For it to me a "new" event, you'd need to have 2 mutations for amelanism spontaneously get produced. Too unlikely to even think about UNLESS this is the first albino NOT inheritable in cornsnakes. Otherwise, one has to be a het, and you are looking at one new mutation. Possible, but still pretty unlikely. Of course, all mutations are pretty unlikely.

No offense, but if this is the only albino out of multiple clutches, it is more likely that the female might be a het (new mutation or not) and sperm from another male got to her one way or another....or babies/eggs from 2 different clutches got mixed up. I don't know the set-up, so I can't comment. I do know odds and genetics, but I WOULD bet everything I own against the odds of two NON-hets producing an albino via two random mutations that were at the same locus (one bad sperm and one bad egg) - especially if this albino DOES turn out to be allelic to other albino corns.

If these adults only produced that one clutch, I'd wait and see what future clutches produce before making any conclusions.

KJ
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