Part of my snake fascination is their genetics. We are in the golden age of snake breeding now and so many new color variations and genes are available- especially in ball pythons and corn snakes.
I want to make a shout out to Vincent at Natural Selection Reptiles. He is an "Evolutionary Biologist" at Yale University and he has a marvelous little section in his website about the genetics of snakes.
Through e-mails, he has helped me a lot with understanding the genetics of Kenyan Sand Boas. I found out that it is possible to have a Striped Snow- or in other words, a Kenyan that is striped (50% Rufescens phase- a co-dominant gene) and both albino and anerythristic. That is so cool to me. I even made up this little punnet square:
I found out from Vincent that i did it wrong because I treated the striped gene as if it was recessive. In reality, I believe 1/3 of the snakes would be normal pattern, 1/3 striped, and 1/3 granite.
Anyway, if anyone actually has a striped snow kenyan sand boa, I'd love to see it.
Welcome to my Little Luke!
10 years ago
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what you didn't tell people is that this was all drawn on a 3x3 bar napkin....i love you davey...and i love that you're such a snake nerd.
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