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j3nnay
at Mon Mar 17 13:34:06 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by j3nnay ]
Het pied "markers" are a joke, I think, played on us by the morph gods and/or Satan.
Theoretically, long black lines on either side of the vent on the belly are the markers...but a LOT of snakes actually have them, without being het for pied. In a batch of 30 CH babies, I saw at least 10 with the het pied 'marker'. I have hatched out a couple babies with het pied 'markers'.
Pied is not a trait that is visible in its heterozygous form - that would be a codominant trait.
Breeders will usually hold back babies with 'markers' though, so maybe in a decade all het pieds really will have those markers. Hah!
~jenny
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