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Fake Hets and Parthenogenesis

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Posted by: RandyRemington at Tue Mar 6 23:20:19 2012   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]  
   

Sorry to see anyone leave but maybe not so bad if from the later posts you are keeping some snakes just maybe not trying to run a business selling them. I'd still breed if they were all illegal to ship and I had to give them all away so hard for me to understand letting something as insignificant as people get in the way of snakes, lol.

Anyway, all this talk of fake hets everywhere got me thinking again about parthenogenesis. Maybe I'm just too trusting but I have a hard time believing MOST breeders are dishonest. What if parthenogenesis is COMMON in ball pythons and the homozygous recessive males aren't always the fathers (because there is no father)? Now that we have lots of homozygous co-dominant males is anyone seeing offspring that don't show the male's gene? I'm sure even at today's prices this would still be a very touchy subject so I don't know if the thunderous silence every other time I've brought it up is because it's a hair brained theory that just doesn't happen or because no one is willing to spill the beans.

If parthenogenesis does regularly happen even in bred females a simple paternity test could restore faith in hets. As an eventual potential seller I'd be willing to shell out something if an economical paternity test could be developed to protect my sales and for peace of mind. I read once they have paternity tests for most every domestic animal and even some fish so why not snakes?
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