genetically, reptiles are much less complicated than mammals. I recall reading corn snakes have been line or inbreed for 11 generations and they have yet to see an issue related to that. With ball pythons i want to say its more like 6 generations.

While you can apply general genetic information to all living things, you can't apply mammalian genetics to reptilian genetics.

Spiders: they are one of THE most out bred morphs because there is no visible super. People aren't breeding spider to spider, or even spider sib to spider sib because they want multi gene animals (bees, spinners, lesserbees, etc).

The failure to thrive of the super jaguar carpet python (leucistic carpet) is thought to be a genetic issue. you CANT solve all genetic problems by out breeding. Like freaky frog said, all spiders wobble. Spider sibs dont wobble. how do you explain that? The wobble and the spider gene are linked.

Just because a gene influences something we see (color/pattern/etc) doesn't mean its not influencing things we dont see. Genetics is not NEARLY that simple. I've taken genetics courses. There are a thousand ways things can happen. I mean look at eye color in humans, there are at LEAST 4 different genes that are linked to assigning eye color and other things. Greated that is mammalian, and we're taking reptilian.

There have been no studies on the genealogy of ball pythons.