Quote Originally Posted by kxr View Post
That's awesome man! So you actually study reptile genomics? I wish I knew that was a program offered somewhere before I started uni haha

Yeah I worded that horribly, sometimes when I try to talk all sciencey it takes me a few tries to word my sentences properly lol

I meant to say that I understand how unlikely it is for the method of sex determination to be changed in a small percentage of a given genus but I'd still like to try to pairing.




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Right now its mainly individual research that i'm doing. Just laying the groundwork for future research. Ive talked to a few professors/doctors of biology and most of them arent too knowledgable about the ZW sex determination system. I am going to be speaking with another prof on friday who works with herps. Right now i'm just a bio major that plans on specializing in herpetology/conservation/evolutionary biology.

If the pairing was done and was successful and it turns out the female ball python is the heterozygote all offspring would have to be ZZ. Whichever species has the larger gametes would determine whether that would be male or female.


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