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draybar
at Mon Aug 25 17:21:21 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by draybar ]
>>...Snakes do. Not just two, as someone had mentioned. Subocs have 40 and Corns have 36. Heck, even the only congeneric to TPRSs, Bogertophis rosaliae, has a different karyotype than its closest relative (B. rosaliae has 38 chromosomes). To my knowledge, there has never been a hybrid Suboc.
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>>One of the reasons you can't use ex-situ conservation techniques to breed intrageneric (Castor) Canadian and European beavers, for example, is because they have a different chromosome count. And I'm sure, at this point, there have been a few people who have tried to breed subocs with other snakes and tried in vain.
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>>I've been asked to breed TPRSs with Bajas (not sure that I ever will or even want to)...I think, if Subocs have ANY chance to hybridize, it'd only be with Bajas. Bajas are the only other colubrid with lorilabial or subocular scales.
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>>DR
>>Suboc.com
now I'm a fan of some "hybrids" (I use the term hybrid loosely for my corn/emoryis) but I just don't think anything mixed with a suboc would look right. Some snakes just should not be mixed.
Thanks for the information.
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RE: Subocs have 4 more chromosomes than Corn - draybar, Mon Aug 25 17:21:21 2008