>I seriously doubt that the albino gene in burmese and the albino gene in retics would or could merge into a compatible albino gene in a bateater.



OTOH, people have crossed tyrosinase negative albino black rat snakes with amelanistic corns (also tyrosinase negative) and gotten babies that lack melanin. That's a species cross, like the bateater. And a guy I used to work for crossed an albino ringneck dove with an albino pigeon, and the only baby they raised was an albino. That was a generic cross, not a species cross. Based on these, I think that it is POSSIBLE to get albino babies from crossing an albino retic with an albino Burm. The only way to know is to cross them and see. And if there are two incompatible albino mutant genes in one or the other species, it might take tries with all combinations of mutants to pick the albino mutant in the Burm that is compatible with one of the albino mutants in the retic.



Paul Hollander

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