Skin colour Ball Python
peer reviewed
Offspring odds
No numbers for this one.
No inheritance mode has been recorded for Skin colour, so no offspring odds are given. Guessing one would be worse than saying nothing: a breeder would plan a season on it.
What this rests on
A peer-reviewed paper identifies the variant behind this morph.
- Piebaldism and chromatophore development in reptiles are linked to the tfec gene. — Curr Biol 2023
- A community-science approach identifies genetic variants associated with three color morphs in ball pythons (Python regius). — PLoS One 2022
- Stripes and loss of color in ball pythons (Python regius) are associated with variants affecting endothelin signaling. — G3 (Bethesda) 2023
- Expression of Concern: Stripes and loss of color in ball pythons (Python regius) are associated with variants affecting endothelin signaling. — G3 (Bethesda) 2023
- Retraction and replacement: Stripes and loss of color in ball pythons (Python regius) are associated with variants affecting endothelin signaling. — G3 (Bethesda) 2023
- Differentiation between wild type and heterozygous albino ball pythons (Python regius) by PCR and qPCR. — Braz J Biol 2024