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Someones post just got me thinking. I mene, it just doesn't make sence that a corns amel. gene would be compatable with a king. Does it work the same way as normaL breeding? I guess that an amel. corn bred to an amel. cal king would produce all normals? If true, does this mene that new strains of amel. could be "injected" into a line of regular looking snakes and bred back to more normals to creat a "new" line of amel. corns for example? Sort of like borrowing one of the kings amel. type. I believe this has happened with some of the kingsnake ssp. I just hope this wouldn't work for cross genus breeding. Sorry about this rambling, if someone understands what I'm saying please straighten me out. Thanks-Brett

It took a few years for people to figure this out because it was not supposed to happen with two completely different species.

Instead herpetoculturists tried to introduce the amel gene by breeding a amel cal king to a normal corn and get hets and then breed brother and sis together.It worked but took a long time.

Nobody figured it would as easy as breeding an amel corn to an amel king.

Strange that the genes are allelic in these.

Thanks for the reply. That certainly clears up some things. Though do all getula amel. types work with all guttata types? For example- g. holbrooki x g. emoryi or g. guttata?

I doubt that they would be. Like I said the cornXcal king was rather surprising.
I don't think anyone has crossed those amels you mentioned yet.