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Paul Hollander
at Sun Dec 7 16:24:02 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Paul Hollander ]
You are writing about the genetics concept of epistasis, where the presence of one (or more) mutant genes masks the presence of other, independant mutant genes.
I'm not as up as ball python mutants as I could wish. But I've personally seen epistasis in a number of species. IMHO, if epistasis hasn't shown up in ball pythons yet, it is just a matter of time until it does. For example, albino may mask pastel. I just don't know if anybody has tried to combine the two.
Paul Hollander
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