Aww my heart sank a little when i read that. I had been hearing that only male retics showed calico. Couple that with the fact that theyre the homogametic sex and no two calicos seem to be same, it was a good recipe for a possible deactivation complex.



And as far as how much and what information is on the W, it seems to be highly variable. Some species seem to have nearly identical W and Z. Some seem to have a tiny W. It varies. I think there was a post in the is thread about the theory that W is just a degenerated form of the z chromosome that has gone losing genetic information through evolutionary time. I wonder if some of these Uropeltids tend to be the ones that have near equal sized chroms.



Its nice to see a lot of academic discussion here to. Ive noticed that often times, people in academia can learn so much about the natural history of reptiles from husbandrists and vice versa.
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