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RandyRemington
at Sat Feb 21 07:14:37 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by RandyRemington ]
There was an animate discussion on white smoke/coral glow/banana a while back but it sounds to me like they might well all the same thing just with some individual variation and some age variation. Regardless of if they are actually the same gene or not I am pretty sure that no one has had time to breed two of them together yet so all of the ones seen so far are heterozygous and we don't know yet what the homozygous form(s) will look like and if the mutation(s) is/are co-dominant or completely dominant. I wouldn't call any of these snakes leucistic but perhaps the homozygous form will look more leucistic like.
As far as the leucistic looking snakes produced in the last couple years, it looks to me like all of them may well be the homozygous form of co-dominant mutations. In the case of Ralph Davis' where his came from crossing two different lines it's a little cloudy but I'm still thinking even his could be co-dominant. Although the hets and homozygous animals look a little different from the various lines I see a few things in common (such as co-dominant inheritance and faded/wide patterned high contrast hets) so have to wonder if there might be some relation between some of the lines. Maybe some are completely different mutations but of the same gene (alleles) or something like that.
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RE: Lucy Questions - RandyRemington, Sat Feb 21 07:14:37 2004