Skin colour (PMEL) Red Cornsnake
peer reviewedPMELrecessive
How it inherits
- One copy
- One copy shows nothing at all. The animal looks ordinary and is called a carrier, or “het”.
- Two copies
- Two copies, one from each parent, are needed before it appears.
Skin colour (PMEL) carrier × Skin colour (PMEL) carrier
Four ways the two can meet.
1 in 4het Skin colour (PMEL)
1 in 4het Skin colour (PMEL)
1 in 4Skin colour (PMEL)
1 in 4Normal
- het Skin colour (PMEL)50%
- Skin colour (PMEL)25%
- Normal25%
A pale box is an animal that shows the morph. These are the odds for each egg on its own, not a promise about a clutch.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph in the gene PMEL.
- PMEL is involved in snake colour pattern transition from blotches to stripes. — Nat Commun 2024
What happens if you breed it
Every pairing involving Skin colour (PMEL), worked out gene by gene — including what the clutch can be and anything documented about the animals it produces.