The Kahl albino was found before the Sharp albino, but nobody knows whether Kahl albino is T-negative or not. Nobody has tested either the Kahl or the Sharp strain for tyrosinase activity. So we don't know which is the T-negative. It may turn out that both are T-positive.

The BW caramel can be called a T-positive albino, but that has no bearing on whether the Sharp albino is T-positive or T-negative.

Let's say the BW caramel has a partly functional gene for producing tyrosinase, and the Sharp albino has a nonfunctional gene for producing tyrosinase. Then the BW caramel would be tyrosinase positive , and the Sharp albino would be tyrosinase negative. Mutants at the corn snake's amelanistic locus fit this scenario.

On the other hand, let's say that both the BW caramel and the Sharp albino have fully functional tyrosinase. And they have less than the normal amount of melanin pigment for some reason unrelated to tyrosinase. Then both would be T-positive albinos. Mutants at the black rat snake's tyrosinase positive albino locus fit this scenario.

Paul Hollander

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• Lets see some Sharp Suglows !! - dan80woma, Tue Dec 16 17:09:48 2008
• RE: Lets see some Sharp Suglows !! - minicopilot, Tue Dec 16 17:20:19 2008
• I don't think so!!!! - BrownsBoas, Tue Dec 16 17:54:05 2008
• Yeah, Original Strain for me too - tomsey, Tue Dec 16 17:57:46 2008
• RE: I don't think so!!!! - jscrick, Tue Dec 16 18:40:56 2008
• It's not a Jungle - BROWNSBOAS, Tue Dec 16 19:45:48 2008
• RE: I don't think so!!!! - dan80woma, Tue Dec 16 19:06:10 2008
• RE: Lets see some Sharp Suglows !! - Morgans Boas, Tue Dec 16 19:00:58 2008
• I think the Sharp Sunglows are - boaphile, Tue Dec 16 19:04:22 2008
• RE: I think the Sharp Sunglows are - jscrick, Wed Dec 17 14:51:22 2008
• RE: I think the Sharp Sunglows are - dan80woma, Wed Dec 17 14:59:01 2008
• RE: I think the Sharp Sunglows are - dan80woma, Wed Dec 17 20:23:08 2008
• Isn't the Kahl strain - mpollard, Tue Dec 16 21:39:50 2008
• Good Point!!!!!n/p - BROWNSBOAS, Tue Dec 16 22:20:09 2008
• RE: Isn't the Kahl strain - Paul Hollander, Wed Dec 17 13:25:32 2008
• RE: Isn't the Kahl strain - johnriz, Wed Dec 17 14:36:40 2008
• RE: Isn't the Kahl strain - jscrick, Wed Dec 17 14:56:51 2008
• RE: Isn't the Kahl strain - Paul Hollander, Wed Dec 17 16:56:25 2008
• RE: Isn't the Kahl strain - BROWNSBOAS, Wed Dec 17 19:24:43 2008
• Good Read!!!! n/p - mack1time, Wed Dec 17 20:28:28 2008
• Here is our favorite 2007 Sharp SG - salmonboa.com, Wed Dec 17 10:05:46 2008
• That tail makes me - boaphile, Wed Dec 17 11:51:06 2008
• RE: Here is our favorite 2007 Sharp SG - dan80woma, Wed Dec 17 15:42:47 2008
• RE: Lets see some Sharp Suglows !! - jeff risher, Wed Dec 17 17:58:58 2008
• RE: Lets see some Sharp Suglows !! - VFR, Thu Dec 18 05:56:12 2008
• RE: BW Question?? - mbleek448, Thu Dec 18 02:53:08 2008
• RE: BW Question?? - LarM, Thu Dec 18 15:45:53 2008
• RE: BW Question?? - mbleek448, Thu Dec 18 16:45:26 2008