Low/Nil White Pied?

[nikkubus]

Hey Nik, I think the university in Eastern Michigan is already doing that morph testing in ball pythons. OWAL had posted it in that thread. Unless I missed something in the readings. I know the original DNA sequence facility is only doing the sexing. Correct me if I’m wrong.

This is from their website:

"We have created genetic tests for Albino/Toffee/Candy, Lavender Albino, Ultramel, and soon Piebald. Genetic tests will be offered for FREE in Fall 2021.

To have your animal tested, please send us a shed from your animal.


Genetic testing can tell you:


Whether your animal is heterozygous


Which alleles your animal carries (e.g. Albino versus Toffee versus Candy)"

I imagine they had a period they were doing them for free to get some more samples in. Not sure if that has expired since it's no longer fall 2021, or what progress they have made since this was posted. For the testing when publicly available for a fee, they will likely have a cost per morph to test or a larger group of tests to test them all. I also imagine they chose to start with the morphs they did because recessive morphs being tested for hets should be the bulk of demand.

I'm very excited to see how the project grows, and I'm glad more than one place is working on it. Ever since Brian mentioned it on youtube that he wanted to possibly start working on it, I've been really excited and even entertained the idea of doing it myself but it would be such a huge scope that I just don't have the resources I would need. Here is the original thread https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...om-Snake-Sheds!