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[Sdaji]

Unless there has been some lavenders from the original breeding of the albino carpet, or there is a new strain of albino carpet, I'm not sure how this is going to be possible to be produce lavender albino carpets?

It wouldn't be at all surprising if 'lavender' carpets popped up, along with a huge range of colour forms. As you say, all the albino retic varieties came from one original animal. That one animal only had one allele ("gene") of relevance, but through epistatic interactions between that allele in the genomes of other retics, the other varieties were produced. As we all know, people will start hybridising the albino Darwin carpets with other carpet python subspecies in the near future. Carpet pythons as a species have massively variable phenotypes and it is very likely that epistatic interaction between the albino allele which is now available to work with and the huge allelic diversity which exists in other carpet python populations will show some interesting things. Even within the albino Darwins which have already been produced, there is great diversity. I have been fortunate enough to visit Dr Stone and see the albino carpets and was very surprised at some of what I saw. Knowing that I quite dislike albinoes, and that I'm interested in genetics, he was quite crafty in stirring my interest in them, he fairly quickly gave up on trying to convince me that they looked good, but by describing them much as wingless Drosophila with vermillion eyes in a tube he had my attention Fortunately for me, Drosophila cost about $5,000 less, have a generation time of about 1% of carpets' and are much easier to work with