Quote Originally Posted by Morphie View Post
I personally think it's going to be FOREVER before they are able to get GFP into a reptile - consider you have to get the genome altered, get it in an egg, and then get that egg to hatch - so like - surgery. And depending on how much development goes on inside the parent snake, you might have to start the process before the egg is even laid.
Well, to do it efficiently, before you do any of that you first need the genome sequence for the ball python so you can determine where to best put the GFP tag. And to the best of my knowledge no one has gone out and sequenced the whole ball genome yet (anyone got a spare million bucks and the willingness to lend a few normal BPs for blood draws?)

Once you have that the process should actually be pretty "straight forward" in terms of already existing techniques.