Congrats Ed! That is interesting that no albinos were produced, but not really to suprising, since the Schuett albino is a bit unique. Perhaps the Schuett albino is T- (lacking tyrosinase) and that has such a dominant effect that when combined with the melanistic it completely overides it, but the melanistic gene still takes away the pattern thus producing a snow looking animal when both genes are expressed, either way the Scheutt albino has a dominant effect over the melanistic, rather than the other way which is more common. And the Lee Hafley might be a T albino, or maybe just a different type of albino that is incompatible, there are so many different albinos and mechanisms that cause it. Has the Lee Hafley albino been crossed with anery or melanistic yet? Maybe Lee has that in the works now? Maybe he will see this and respond? This is just a hair-brained theory, or more of a guess, biochemistry tests would need to be performed to varify or disprove.
I think my females still have a couple weeks before they pop.
Congrats again,
Jeff
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Jeff Benfer
gartersnakemorph.com
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