Sexing Snakes

[mysnakesau]

I heard a couple years back that herpetologists were testing the the accuracy of sexing snakes via DNA testing of their shed skins.

Does anybody know if anything has come of this?

 

[AirCooled]

Not exactly answering your question but I can tell you that DNA kits for human testing are male or female,they generally have to know the sex of the sample before testing.

 

[beeman]

Sdaji could answer this question for you, But from what i gathered at the time they ran out of funding to continue the project.

 

[mysnakesau]

Oh damn, that's ashame. Be a safer option than probing.

That could still work Deadpan. If you bought a male kit, thinking you have a male, and the test shows negative, then there is only one other answer eh? Is that how the human kits work? Wouldn't on the snakes, though, pity.