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MarcB
at Fri Nov 5 11:27:56 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by MarcB ]
Stunning animal!
I recently had a discussion with an epidermal specialist (Humans!) that does share a common passion for herps, he works with Ball Pythons and was telling me about his analysis of (5) layers of epiderm (skin) of python regius, his preliminary research was done on Hypo also known as Ghost Ball Pythons.
He was scientificaly explaining that these five layers of skin were directly or indirectly influenced with different color and shade of pigmentation. On a Hypo ball python the first and second layers are devoid of any pigmentation with underlying layers giving the colors. He speculated that on the Double-Homozygous ball python, the Caramel Glow (Double-Homo Hypo and Xanthic) the third layer would also most likely be devoided of pigmentation.
On this beautiful Honduran, perhaps we are seeing this hypomelanism mutation influenced on a different layer of epiderm, there is obviously so much more we need to learn, got to love genetics!
Thanks for sharing this beauty with all of us
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- What is it? beautiful hondo jeff a produced - rtdunham, Fri Nov 5 00:22:20 2004
- a few more pix - rtdunham, Fri Nov 5 00:25:11 2004
- Crazy.. - jeph, Fri Nov 5 01:07:10 2004
- RE: Crazy.. - theselectserpent, Sat Nov 6 17:23:33 2004
- INSANE! - bluerosy, Fri Nov 5 08:30:07 2004
- RE: What is it? beautiful hondo jeff a produced - ZFelicien, Fri Nov 5 08:36:59 2004
- Beautiful Hondo - - Adam Willich, Fri Nov 5 09:52:17 2004
 Skin observation... - MarcB, Fri Nov 5 11:27:56 2004- AWESOME is what it is!! Here's my theory... - Shane Kinney, Fri Nov 5 13:41:51 2004
- Terry,I still say its a extreme hybino?Makes since to me and when - shannon brown, Sat Nov 6 02:52:48 2004
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