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Rainer please describe what you are seeing that leads you to believe these are co-dominant traits?

These first shots are of the peanutbutter male

This is a het peanutbutter female

This female is a 007 het peanutbutter and

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Bob Bull
1.3 L.g.getula MD Locality
3.3 L.g.g GA locality
2.3 L.g.g albino
1.4 L.g.g het albino
1.2 L.g.g P-het albino
1.0 L.g.floridana peanutbutter
0.2 L.g.f. het peanutbutter
1.0 L.g.f. N.E. axanthic
1.0 L.g.nigrita
1.1 L.t.hondurensis het hypo-melanistic
0.1 L.t.hondurensis hypo-melanistic

Hey Bob

I dont know if you saw it but someone posted below said that with Co dominate genes you cant have hets or maybe a normal apearing animal that is het as that would mean its recessive. If thats the case some who paid for hets actually paid for normals. That PB male of yours is beautiful ! How big is he ?

Keith
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Hi guys,

I don't know squat about peanut butters and don't claim to. However, co-dominant traits are popular and common in the world of ball python mutations. A co-dominant trait is simply a trait that shows the heterozygous condition as either a less intense form of the desired trait, or some other visible marker. Very simply, you can tell hets visually. For example, a pastel ball is the visual heterozygous condition of the super pastel, or a mojave ball is (one of many) het expressions of a blue-eyed leucistic. The homozygous form of co-dom trait is inherited the same as in a recessive mutation ({pastel}het x {pastel}het = 1 in 4 chance of a homozygous baby {super pastel}). As I said, I don't know how all of this translates to the snakes in question, but if they are co-dom, then you should be able to id the hets visually.

Will

What is different? I had hoped Rainer would describe what he sees in these "hets" that says co-dominate. I'm not doubting, I just thought he could 'splain.
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Bob Bull
1.3 L.g.getula MD Locality
3.3 L.g.g GA locality
2.3 L.g.g albino
1.4 L.g.g het albino
1.2 L.g.g P-het albino
1.0 L.g.floridana peanutbutter
0.2 L.g.f. het peanutbutter
1.0 L.g.f. N.E. axanthic
1.0 L.g.nigrita
1.1 L.t.hondurensis het hypo-melanistic
0.1 L.t.hondurensis hypo-melanistic