anyone have experience with this pairing and what it would likely produce?i assume it's one of the three scenarios-regular looking triple hets(for patternless,amel,and leucisitic)....patternless,double hets(for leucistic and amel)...some mixed bag combination of the two aforementioned examples...or ?none of the above?.thanks
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leucistic x amelanistic('snow')=???
justinian2120
Feb 27, 2006 04:31 PM
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Paul Hollander
Feb 27, 2006 05:44 PM
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justinian2120
Feb 28, 2006 07:19 PM
...mugitis to be subspecific;florida pines...btw,how does the species make a difference?thanks
Paul Hollander
Mar 01, 2006 01:30 PM
Species makes a difference because people use the same word for different things in different species. For example, hypo in boa constrictors is quite different from hypo in Honduran milk snakes. And leucistic in Texas rats seems to be different from leucistic in Florida pines.
I don't know much about Pituophis genetics. I did a quicky google search, and nobody seems to know a lot about their genetics. I added a link to a discussion I found, which may or may not be helpful. You might try e-mailing the guy who started the discussion to see what his results have been.
I once saw a Florida pine that was claimed to be sired by a leucistic, and she was normal. So in my opinion, assuming that all the mutant genes are recessive is the safest course. If so, then the first generation babies would be normal. But I haven't a clue as to what the second generation would look like.
Paul Hollander
link to discussion in another forum
