Ball Python Morphs Genetics

Recessive ball python genetics.

Ball python morphs genetics. Due to the ongoing popularity of ball python morphs we will use this species for our examples to illustrate relevant concepts although the information in this article can be applied to reptiles of all species. Do me a big favor and please hit that thumbs up if you enjoyed this vlog. The molecular basis of. In a codominant or incompletely dominant mutation there is a technical difference and debate continues on which is correct for certain ball python morphs the one mutant copy in a heterozygous animal produces a visible mutant phenotype but the homozygous mutant version is a different usually more extreme phenotype.

The term dinker does not refer to a negative anomaly but i will nonetheless include it since it deals with ball python genetics. Some of the earlier morphs originated from wild caught or farm raised snakes in africa in the 1990s. Watch to see anything and everything you ever could possibly want to know about ball python genetics and snake genetics. There is no animal on earth that has shown as much genetic variation as ball pythons.

If only one of the genes at a particular locust contains the abnormality then the ball python will be a het for that mutation. Recessive ball python morphs require both of the genes at a particular locus to contain the abnormality in order for the mutation to be visible. To breed a snake to a normal ball python just dont add any genes to male or female and wizard will treat it as a normal. It is a term that is used in the reptile community for a reptile that has a desirable phenotype visual appearance or the potential to produce a desirable phenotype when mixed.

Start by clicking in the field and start typing a morph name select by click in the list or press enter to pick the selected morph. The purpose of this article is to explain some of the fundamentals of genetics as they apply to breeding.