They are likely two different genes at two different loci - if you bred a carmel albino to an albino, you'd get a bunch of normal looking snakes het for both.
It remains to be seen what you'd get if you managed to get homozygous genes for both kinds of albino into the same snake.
There is a line of caramels that occasionally throws albinos including a keeper with a pair of het caramels that has only produced albinos. This got me wondering if caramel and albino could be alleles but after years and years of waiting I've yet to hear of anyone actually breeding caramel to albino to prove one way or the other. Eventually they will be cheap enough for someone to try this.
I tried possible hets back in 2004 but got all normals and not sure if either possible was a het. But now I'm getting more interested in the Crider and African import lines of "caramel" which appear to be a different but similar (better) looking morph that might not have the kinking problem. Not sure if I’m going to keep working with my caramel project or not.
Is it possible to breed a tyrosinase-positive albino with a tyrosinase - negative albino, Can those 2 kinds of albinism gene combine to be a combo??
I believe that a double homozygous would look like a typical T-.
In a T+ animal the enzyme is present however, in a T- the enzyme is absent. So in a situation where both sets of the mutant allele are in the same animal T- should be epistatic to T+ and the animal will appear as a T- animal.
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