Pied jag?!!

[ragoon]

This is my friend's 2011 offspring.

[loonunit]

Dude! SCORE.

[JLC]

Woah! Very cool! Was it a one-of-a-kind in the whole clutch? Or are there others? Would be very neat to figure out if it's predictably genetic, or an incubation quirk.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

That is very cool

[mpkeelee]

Wow definitely something to keep an eye on. That is definitely a future project

[ragoon]

Woah! Very cool! Was it a one-of-a-kind in the whole clutch? Or are there others? Would be very neat to figure out if it's predictably genetic, or an incubation quirk.

Unfortunately, only one of the five.

[purplemuffin]

Very cool.. Will keep an eye on this. Hopefully this turns out well and also has healthy snakes!

[SlytherynHiss]

I WANT one! That is awesome!

[Russ Lawson]

Considering the homozygous form of jaguar carpets is leucistic (though that seems to work out as a fatal mutation), I would be willing to bet that this animal is expressing mosaic monosomy in those white areas. This is that the white areas on that animal lack a second allele at the jaguar locus, and as a result it appears that the homozygous form (leucistic) is expressed in those areas because of the presence of only one allele at the jaguar locus in those particular spots. I find this to be a curious case indeed, and I am interested to hear how this animal does considering the neurological issues associated with the jaguar mutation (and that which ultimately result in fatality in leucistic carpets). Thanks for sharing!