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    A Mystery Snake

    I recently purchased a new female to add to my extremely modest collection. She was advertised as an Enchi 100% het Clown. She looks like a Super Enchi to me (and to her breeder).

    Her parents are 1.0 OD Enchi het Clown and 0.1 visual Clown. I've talked to a few people about her and have been told she could be an Enchi Blade het Clown (meaning the breeder may not know he has some Blade in his collection). This seems like a perfectly reasonable explanation and I do plan to prove her out eventually but I thought I'd ask the rest of you what you thought, in the meantime.

    Whether she's got an extra gene or she's just the coolest looking Enchi I've ever seen, I'm very happy with her. I mean, look at her. She's gorgeous!

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    Beautiful snake, I’m no expert by any means. But possibly something more then just Enchi. Looking forward to someone with more experience weighing in.
    1.0 Black Pastel Pinstripe
    1.0 Reduced Pattern Clown
    1.0 Low White Pied
    1.0 Hypo Super Enchi

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    Certainly looks like a SuperEnchi... Possible this is a case of androgenesis. And if that is the case then she will also prove to not be het Clown
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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    Quote Originally Posted by asplundii View Post
    Certainly looks like a SuperEnchi... Possible this is a case of androgenesis. And if that is the case then she will also prove to not be het Clown
    See, I hadn't thought of that. I (with my incredibly basic understanding of such things) thought that androgenesis acted like parthenogenesis, except taking the genetics from the male instead of the female. If the father is an OD Enchi het Clown, how would he produce a baby that is Super Enchi and without the possibility of being het Clown?

    Forgive my ignorance. I'm no geneticist by any means (which I'm beginning to feel is a failing on my part). I'm certainly looking to learn more, though.

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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    It is also possible:
    -The female Clown is a non-expressive Enchi.
    -The Super Enchi is a result of retained sperm from the prior year.
    -Or the breeder got his notes mixed up.

    Although I like the Androgenesis theory. Sounds so much cooler!
    *.* TNTC

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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    Scratch that 'Retained Sperm Theory' -- Can't make a Super Enchi without both parties being Enchi to start with.
    *.* TNTC

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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    Quote Originally Posted by Lord Sorril View Post
    Scratch that 'Retained Sperm Theory' -- Can't make a Super Enchi without both parties being Enchi to start with.
    No but your other thoughts on the subject are sound. I would be quite happy to find out that her mother is just low expression. I know I've seen plenty of reduced Clowns for sale that looked very much like low expression Enchi Clowns. If HER breeder wasn't confident enough to call her an Enchi Clown, it's quite possible she was sold off as just a reduced Clown.

    These kinds of things are a lot of fun for me. I get to enjoy the guessing game while I'm waiting to prove her out. I could have bought any number of Enchi het Clowns for my project but this girl has secrets to uncover and I want to be the one to do so. No matter what, she's gonna make some pretty babies!

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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    Quote Originally Posted by Eye4Pythons View Post
    See, I hadn't thought of that. I (with my incredibly basic understanding of such things) thought that androgenesis acted like parthenogenesis, except taking the genetics from the male instead of the female. If the father is an OD Enchi het Clown, how would he produce a baby that is Super Enchi and without the possibility of being het Clown?

    Forgive my ignorance. I'm no geneticist by any means (which I'm beginning to feel is a failing on my part). I'm certainly looking to learn more, though.
    Unless it is purposeful, ignorance is nothing you need to ask forgiveness for. All of us have areas where we have strengths and areas where we have weaknesses. Acknowledging ignorance is just taking the first step to learning. So I applaud you for not just recognizing where you are weak but looking to change that by learning. That is something to be proud of, not apologize for.

    Now... To answer your question.

    If the sire was an Enchi OD het Clown then genetically he would be EeOoCc. During gametogenesis, the genetic payload in the sperm contain only one copy of each chromosome, ergo only one copy of each gene. This means that the possible sperm from the father are:

    EOC
    EOc
    Eoc
    EoC
    eOC
    eOc
    eoc
    eoC

    When androgenesis happens, the sperm (typically) penetrates an egg that has no genetic payload and the first act that occurs is an automatic doubling of the sperm's genetic package. This makes the embryo homozygous for whatever genes it is carrying. So if the sperm had carried the Clown gene then a homozygous embryo would, of course, be a visual Clown. Because your animal is not a visual Clown (and assuming androgenesis is at play here) then we know that the sperm responsible was not carrying the Clown gene. Likewise, because your animal is not a SuperOD we know the sperm did not carry the OD gene. This means the sperm was EoC, which when doubled makes EEooCC - homozygous Ench at Enchi locus, homozygous WT at OD locus, and homozygous WT at Clown locus.


    Make sense?
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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    My enchi het clown looks exactly like yours, she came from a lazik line clown and I have a friend who has a het clown who is also very very bright. Sometimes the het influences the look of the snake.

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    Re: A Mystery Snake

    Quote Originally Posted by asplundii View Post
    Unless it is purposeful, ignorance is nothing you need to ask forgiveness for. All of us have areas where we have strengths and areas where we have weaknesses. Acknowledging ignorance is just taking the first step to learning. So I applaud you for not just recognizing where you are weak but looking to change that by learning. That is something to be proud of, not apologize for.

    Now... To answer your question.

    If the sire was an Enchi OD het Clown then genetically he would be EeOoCc. During gametogenesis, the genetic payload in the sperm contain only one copy of each chromosome, ergo only one copy of each gene. This means that the possible sperm from the father are:

    EOC
    EOc
    Eoc
    EoC
    eOC
    eOc
    eoc
    eoC

    When androgenesis happens, the sperm (typically) penetrates an egg that has no genetic payload and the first act that occurs is an automatic doubling of the sperm's genetic package. This makes the embryo homozygous for whatever genes it is carrying. So if the sperm had carried the Clown gene then a homozygous embryo would, of course, be a visual Clown. Because your animal is not a visual Clown (and assuming androgenesis is at play here) then we know that the sperm responsible was not carrying the Clown gene. Likewise, because your animal is not a SuperOD we know the sperm did not carry the OD gene. This means the sperm was EoC, which when doubled makes EEooCC - homozygous Ench at Enchi locus, homozygous WT at OD locus, and homozygous WT at Clown locus.


    Make sense?
    In other words, androgenesis results in super forms and since she only has one apparent super form, she only has that morph (if she is, in fact, a product of androgenesis). That's what I got from what you said, anyway. Is that about right or has my simplification overlooked something important?

    This is really fascinating. I wish I would have realized as much in my formative years. Oh well. Never too late to learn something new!

    - Charles Eye

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