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[Selkielass]

Nice definitions.
I'd love to see a sticky thread that is a sort of Garter snake lexicon of color terms, nicknames for morphs and varieties and shorthand terms used around this forum- I'm still trying to figure out some of the lingo around here, even with lots of Google-ing.

[mtolypetsupply]

only marginally on topic: anerythristic is Mikhaila's favourite word to use when playing hangman with new acquaintances

Give her the word "syzygy". She'll stump everyone, at least the first time she pulls that out.

Nice definitions.
I'd love to see a sticky thread that is a sort of Garter snake lexicon of color terms, nicknames for morphs and varieties and shorthand terms used around this forum- I'm still trying to figure out some of the lingo around here, even with lots of Google-ing.

One of the major problems with some of the terms is that a good number, at least to me, seem to have been adopted from the scientific community, but have taken on a different definition in the hobby.

Colloquially, "codom" means that when one of those alleles (not "genes" as people say) is present, ie the "het form", it exhibits a pattern different from the "dominant" (well, if it were really dominant, it would override the codom, so wouldn't it also be codom?) Wild Type or "normal".

Incomplete dominance alters the phenotype slightly. (IMO, like mojave alters wild type in ball pythons). Semi- dominant would bring a compromise between the two homozygous forms. I don't have a snake reference off the top of my head, but like a red flower crossed with a white flower makes a pink flower. Co-dominant completely alters the appearance as a compromise between the two. Like a red flower x white flower = red flower with white spots.

There are also so many traits about which we attribute a simple, single allele as responsible for the trait, while we may actually be dealing with multiple alleles.

There's lots more info on this, but, like Richard, I just don't feel like looking up references for you. (LOL, JK, I have to get in the shower and take my kid to the fair, don't have time now. )


That's why I'm going to have my lab. Too much still needs to be studied before we would have definitive answers.

Yes, those who have requested positions so far will be my first and top employees, and all testing of their snakes will be free for life.