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Jeff Schofield
at Tue Oct 25 19:52:21 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Jeff Schofield ]
I never mentioned a thing about "plain"albinos. The 3 types I mentioned was the EXTREME, the HYPO and a possible double morph of the 2. It has also been theorized that as each generation of captive bred colubrid comes along they continue to get lighter and lighter....an example of this would be the diminishing black in cb pyros....Maybe there is some correllation here with the albino cal king X lav albino cal king?? The babies SHOULD be simple double hets(normal phenotype).Has anyone ever recrossed them to get the double albino cal king?(1/16). As much as we can cross and recross these milks and make em into cornsnakes, there are countless missed opportunities to really learn how generations of inbred/outbred/inbred snakes compare to the old standards. I realize it is difficult or impossible to measure genetic distance accurately, but real research could be done with the accumulating hard data collected by everyone tracking genetic lines. For this reason I applaud the high cost of morphs,Jeff
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Reducing melanin :nature vs nuture - Jeff Schofield, Tue Oct 25 19:52:21 2005