I was asked in an IRC chat, why I don't breed one of my corns (or other colubrids) to my lone Trans Pecos female. Although hybrids are intriguing to me, I highly doubt I can ever do hybrids with snakes. I'm just waiting to go back to Texas to catch a nice male Trans Pecos, or have one of my friends catch me a nice one.

But this lead to an interesting conversation that the Trans Pecos genetic count was different than a corn by 2 genes. So, have they done that much genetic research on colubrids? And is it true on the trans Pecos gene count? If this is all true, I was wondering why they can't DNA sex difficult herps like Heloderma.
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Thanks for reading.
Big Tom

www.HerpZillA.com

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• Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - HerpZillA, Fri Aug 22 17:07:21 2008
• RE: Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - wisema2297, Fri Aug 22 18:53:02 2008
• RE: Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - jyohe, Fri Aug 22 19:23:25 2008
• RE: Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - HerpZillA, Fri Aug 22 21:36:36 2008
• RE: Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - HerpZillA, Fri Aug 22 21:39:41 2008
• RE: Corns Hybrid to a Trans Pecos Rat snake? - FunkyRes, Fri Aug 22 21:51:53 2008
• Now that is interesting. - HerpZillA, Fri Aug 22 22:12:20 2008
• Not gunna happen - mike17l, Fri Aug 22 22:42:01 2008
• LOL see thats what I heard. - HerpZillA, Fri Aug 22 22:57:44 2008
• RE: Not gunna happen - FunkyRes, Fri Aug 22 23:33:43 2008
• Thats to funny - HerpZillA, Sat Aug 23 01:44:31 2008
• Speaking of Jurrasic Park - FunkyRes, Sat Aug 23 02:28:05 2008
• I loved seeing the Albino Nelson's... - dustyrhoads, Mon Aug 25 13:12:50 2008
• And is 100% infertile. - mike17l, Sat Aug 23 11:10:19 2008
• RE: And is 100% infertile. - FunkyRes, Sat Aug 23 12:00:09 2008
• RE: And is 100% infertile. - FunkyRes, Sat Aug 23 12:15:43 2008
• OK 99.99% - mike17l, Sat Aug 23 15:08:35 2008
• Even so.... - mike17l, Sat Aug 23 15:21:36 2008
• But what is most important is - HerpZillA, Sat Aug 23 16:33:41 2008
• RE: Even so.... - FunkyRes, Sat Aug 23 20:30:54 2008
• RE: Even so.... - draybar, Sun Aug 24 09:05:20 2008
• Subocs have 4 more chromosomes than Corn - dustyrhoads, Mon Aug 25 12:56:33 2008
• Thanks for the help - HerpZillA, Mon Aug 25 15:45:29 2008
• I agree - FunkyRes, Mon Aug 25 19:18:43 2008
• RE: Subocs have 4 more chromosomes than Corn - draybar, Mon Aug 25 17:21:21 2008
• agree np - HerpZillA, Mon Aug 25 17:35:04 2008