GREEN LAB, NEW PICS

So what where the parents (genetically)?

her parents were also green labrinth. the male died this year after this cluth was born. but even with 2 parents showing the green lab trait only a small % will be this way. the rest of the cluch will be a mixture of labs and greens het for eachother. those babies will be the key to producing this new morph. its hard to produce and since there is no breeding male anymore this morph will continue to pop up very sporatically. it will be very hard & expensive to get these for another decade at lease. the only person who has a baby thats also a female is ahp exotics out of georgia. i have her posted for extremely cheap due to a personal injury that left me without the use of my legs. its very hard to handle adult burms from a wheelchair.

Did you get any normals in the clutch?

I'm trying to understand the genetics. If both parents where homozygous for both green and labyrinth then there should be no normal copies of either gene and all the babies should be green labyrinths.

I'm wondering if you are seeing a het green effect. Some het greens have those wide light areas between reduced dark areas. It doesn't show up in all het greens but some show it.

I've wondered for years if green and labyrinth could be linked by being on the same chromosome. That would make originally combining the two mutations much more difficult. Maybe there has finally been a crossover and these are some of the first homozygous labyrinths het for green.

Do you happen to have pictures of the parents?

Beautiful snake, however if it is a new morph why Bob Cark or Mike Wilbanks were not interested in getting it?

I haven't really kept up on Burms but I remember seeing the first double het green labyrinth babies for sale back around 92 or 93 (I don't remember for sure but it was a long time ago). I was interested in if the green would totally cover/hide the labyrinth but have found it hard to get much information on the progress toward a combo. That's what got me thinking that maybe the two genes where linked by being on the same chromosome complicating things. I would say this guy looks at least het green so it would be interesting to breed it to a homozygous labyrinth and see if it can be proved homozygous labyrinth. If so then maybe it has one crossed over chromosome with both mutations (if there is even anything to the theory that they might be linked) but of course even then the green may still hide labyrinth in the homozygous form. Oh to have the room and time to figure everything out ...

i am tying my best to find every detail of the genetics of this snake. i bought her from ahp exotics in georgia. this will be a very exiting project. it is so hard to get breeding data from a private collector who just had a trio of these awesome snakes. the male died so no breeding will take place for a few years. this snake is similar as dr.owen's green granite. i spoke to him & he said that even that snake breed to another like it will only produce about 12.5% green granites. this is the case with my snake as well. i dont think wilbanks or clark are even aware of this cross. if i dont sell her i will keep her and prove it out officially my-self. non the less it is a zoo/show quality animal. i will keep people posted with updated pics as well as any further breeding info.
later,
jason jcam1@cox.net