
24-05-2010, 04:51 PM
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ahh great stuff wood
For those that want to know.
Graziani Hypo
This is our fourth signature mutation, proven simple recessive here at Graziani Reptiles in 2004. We acquired our first G1 Hypomelanistic ball python into our collection in 1996. She was imported from Africa through a small importer.
This bloodline was derived from a single imported female ball python we received as a hatchling. This mutation appears to only reduce the melanin in the lighter colored areas of the ball python. The dark pattern is considerably darker than any of the other Hypomelanistic bloodline we are working with. The dark pattern area on these ball pythons is also vary reduced on both the homozygous and heterozygous animals. What we believe to be happening is this gene is only doing half of what the other Hypomelanistic genes do. Instead of reducing all of the black pigment it appears to only be removing the dark color on the dorsal pattern that appears as a ball pythons mature. She has been bred to several other Hypomelanistic bloodlines, and is not compatible with those lines.
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