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Hi,

I have a question, about making hybrids with mutation in the mix.

This is probably the most "done" hybrid I could think of:

Albino Burmese X reticulated python:

If you breed these bateaters het albino to a albino burmese, does the albino gene come trough or does it vanish since its a hybrid?

or burmese x tiger retic, do you get tiger bateaters?

thank you for any reply.

regards
Bård

Recessive traits (i.e. albinism) act just as they would with a pure species...interestingly, some species such as corn snakes & california kings have been shown to have the same type of amelanism, for example if you bred an amel cornsnake with an amel california kingsnake you would get amelanistic offspring. With the bateater example, if the burmese used to make the original bateater was an amel or het and the resulting hybrids would carry the gene (100% if burm was amel, 66% if het of course) then when backcrossed with an amel burn they would produce the percentage of amel offspring expected in a pure breeding of het to amel.

I think that the Kahl/Baldago strain of amel retics would be compatible with the burmese amelanism while the Clark strain would not be...but this is just an opinion as none of these crosses have been produced to date. I don't think tiger or any of the other co-dom retic traits have been shown in a hybrid yet but there's no reason it wouldn't work just as the recessive traits do...there should be Tiger Bateaters produced in the next 2 years I think.

Horridus