Axanthic and Anerytheristic... and true Ghosts

[Freakie_frog]

So, I have a question:

In relation to BPs vs. boas and corns, what's the difference between the Axanthic gene and the Anerytheristic gene? Both genes produce a completely black and white snake. They both, therefore, inhibit the yellows, browns, reds, grays, etc. So what's the difference?

Anerytheristic restricts the animals ability to produce the "red" pigment.
Axanthic restricts the animals ability to produce the yellow pigment.

Because the wild type ball doen't produce "red" pigment as seen in boas and corns anerythistic isn't a mutation that would effect the look of the base animal.

And moving on from that... if a true ghost in the snake world is defined as being a Hypo by Anerytheristic crossing---and there is no difference between the anerytheristic gene and the axanthic gene---wouldn't a Hypo by Axanthic cross in the BP world mean producing a true "ghost"?

Yes a homozygous Hypo axanthic is a true ghost. There is a defference in Anerytheristic and axanthic. People that deal with balls have been over the last couple of years moving away form the "Ghost" and more to the Hypo description when labeling the animals that are simply hypomelanistic in nature

And isn't the term "ghost" referring to a hypo snake therefore incorrect?

Not incorrect.. They could have named it the "flying purple people eater" and thats what its name would be. It was named Ghost cause thats what the original breeder wished to call it

Also, has anyone produced an Axanthic Hypo (which I guess would be called an Axanthic ghost)? I want to see one!

I think theres one or two running around out there but I could be wrong