Albino Reticulated Python
Recessive morph
- Inheritance
- Recessive
- Super form
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- Allelic with
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How Albino is inherited
Albino is recessive: a reticulated python needs two copies to show it. Animals with one copy look normal but are "het Albino" and pass the gene to about half their babies.
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Breeding outcomes
Odds per egg. Try your own pairing in the genetics calculator.
Albino × Normal
- 100%Normal · het Albino
Albino × het Albino
- 50%Albino
- 50%Normal · het Albino
het Albino × het Albino
- 75%Normal · 67% poss. het Albino
- 25%Albino
Albino × Albino
- 100%Albino
Research mentioning Albino
- Clouded Eyes in Paradise
Mānoa/Mānoa · 2023
- Clinical diagnosis and therapeutic approach for stomatitis in an albino-reticulated python (Malayopython reticulatus) at Gembira Loka Zoo, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
ARSHI Veterinary Letters · 2024
Other reticulated python morphs
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