The simple recessive trait gene that we find in the Central San Joaquin Valley is a crazy looking snake. The point that I am trying to make is that it comes in soooooooo many different variety of color and pattern.

I am not discussing weather or not Hypermelanistic or hypomelanistic is a recessive gene. I agree it is.

Eiseni can be very dark like a Hypermelanistic gene or they can be very light like a Hypomelanistic gene. Then within the overall color of the snake their pattern can be banded, stripped, dotted, speckled, etc. To call an Eiseni a simple recessive hypermelanistic snake is completely inadequate.

I don't know how ells to explain myself other than to post more examples of a Eisenis.

























All of these snakes are expressing the same gene. If you were to breed any of the above snake to a normal banded Central San Joaquin Banded snake that did not carry the gene you would produce heterozygous babies. If you where to then breed those babies together 1/4 of them could look very dark like a hypermelanistic snake or it could look very light like a hypomelanistic snake with extremely crazy pattern that could be banded, stripped, specked, dotted, etc with a black belly. I fill like I'm being redundant here.


Thanks
Bobby

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