Quote Originally Posted by JJpeep View Post
I am sure it is. Haha. Too bad no one invented just taking blood to see. I heard they were working on something with sheds? Correct me if I am wrong. I thought I read that somewhere.
I remember Brian Barcyk (I hope I spelled that right, probably not) talking about starting up a big project to sequence genomes somehow, and I think it was sheds he was trying to use. Not sure if he ever got that off the ground, but even if he had, it wouldn't work on new morphs. Basically what they do is take a ton of samples from many snakes to compare and try and figure out which gene causes what, so when the new one showed up in there they would have a hard time tying it to the actual morph without a lot of samples from a snake with that morph. Either way, I sure hope he has some luck getting that project going because it would be SO nice for testing BEL's to find out which extra things are in there, or telling apart Yellow Belly from Gravel without test breeding, not having to prove out hets, and lots more