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Paradigm Boa?

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I was just wondering what some of you thought about this new morph. I think it could make for some very exciting breeding's in the next few years, anyway I just wanted to here from some of you before I become to obsessed with this boa lol.
 
Hi Bill, the paradigm boa is not a true morph in the normal since. It is a vidual double het for caramel and sharp albino. It is an incredible looking animal with all kinds of potential for combinations. I would love to see a motley paradigm. I will in all likely hood have one down the road, but I will wait my turn for a good bit.

Chris
 
There was a thread on paradigm boas posted on the kingsnake.com boa forum a month or two ago.

From the information there, it looks like paradigm is not a double het. It looks like a case of multiple alleles at the Sharp albino locus in the genome. Paradigm is heterozygous, with a single gene pair made up of a Sharp albino mutant gene and a boawoman hypo mutant gene.

If that information is correct, then paradigm x paradigm -->
1/4 Sharp albino (two Sharp albino mutant genes)
2/4 paradigm (a Sharp albino mutant gene paired with a boawoman hypo mutant gene)
1/4 boawoman hypo (two boawoman hypo mutant genes)

If this is all correct, then (as far as I know) this is the first case of multiple alleles in boids. I know of two cases in colubrid snakes. And multiple alleles are pretty common in well-studied creatures like mice and fruit flies.

Hope this helps.
 
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