Known Genetic Defects?

[paulh]

The only info is the absence of records or the animal itself. Try finding records of a woma x woma pairing, most refer to hgw x hgw before people knew they were hgw and not woma. woma x spiders are claimed to be viable by many as "they have one" yet I haven't been able to find one that actually proved out to have both woma and spider gene. So there no evidence of them being lethal besides the absence of evidence. What if woma is just a dominant morph, what if spider womas are allelic. Given I feel it is unlikely looking at correlations with other neuro morphs, still the thing is we don't know, we just assume. I'm even fine with educated assuming, but what data are we assuming based off of? Almost nothing.

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Breeding black head to woma might be more productive than spider to woma. The black head and spider genes seem to be allelic, so if black head and woma are allelic, then spider and woma are also allelic. With black head/spider ball pythons viable, then black head/womas are likely to be viable, too.