Can anyone shed light on this new morph and the genetics behind it? I'm curious about it. Thanks in advance.
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Ken Roshak
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What's an Ultramel Corn?
KenRoshak
Aug 27, 2005 12:06 AM
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goregrind
Aug 27, 2005 11:29 AM
this
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
goregrind
Aug 27, 2005 11:29 AM
n/p
Link
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my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (mazy)
KenRoshak
Aug 27, 2005 03:08 PM
Thanks for the links. They are visually beautiful but what are the genetics behind them. I read this on Don's site.
"Most of these are the result of breeding ultras or ultramels with some albino morph or one het for albino."
But what's an ultra or ultramel? Thanks.
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Ken Roshak
BlackSwampSerpents@toast.net
khaman
Aug 27, 2005 05:18 PM
The short answer is an ultramel is a corn snake that's het for the ultra hypo gene (recently discovered gene that mimics the original hypo gene) and for the amel gene. Since ultra and amel are codominant, the resulting animal looks halfway between hypo and amel.
KenRoshak
Aug 28, 2005 07:44 PM
And I thought corn snake genetics were already confusing ... LOL
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Ken Roshak
BlackSwampSerpents@toast.net
ecreipeoj
Aug 30, 2005 01:21 AM
Ultras look similar to Hypos, but are genetically different. They are located at a different locus than Hypos, and in fact are located at the Amel locus.
An Ultramel is het for Ultra and Amel. Since they are located at the same locus, there is no room for a normal gene, so we get a co-dominant phenotype between Ultra and Amel.
You can breed any Ultra to any Amel and produce Hets for Ultra and Amel, which are Ultramels and they look like an in-between snake between Ultra and Amel. You may have seen them called T Albinos too, but they are one and the same.
If you breed an Ultramel X Amel, you will produce 50% Ultramels and 50% Amels. The Het Ultra gene in the Ultramel matches up with an amel gene from the Amel and you get Ultramels again. The het Amel gene in the Ultramel matches up with an Amel gene from the Amel and you get Amels.
The twist to Ultramels is when you breed them to a non Amel Corn. You get Corns that are het for Ultra OR Amel, but you can’t tell which are which.
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