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Odd corn found in SC

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Are you sure thats a corn? Looks like some kind of hybrid and I swear awhile ago a pic like that surfaced, but I may be wrong
 
Saw that snake at Repticon in Columbia last year--very fascinating in person, too! You'll have to find the posts about this snake, lots of controversy of course, and the owner refuses to sell--and from what I understand, as of last year the snake hadn't been bred yet; pity.
 
Lynnea said:
Saw that snake at Repticon in Columbia last year--very fascinating in person, too! You'll have to find the posts about this snake, lots of controversy of course, and the owner refuses to sell--and from what I understand, as of last year the snake hadn't been bred yet; pity.
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Here is the link,

http://www.cornsnakes.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61838

I would love for it to prove out as a true corn but I'm not holding my breath!
 
Take it to a herpetologist who knows about ratsnakes? Someone who went to school for a long time? They'd probably love to have a chance to work with that animal for a bit.
 
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there are key characteristics that can id it as a rat or corn...loreal scale presence / absence, etc. I, personally, don't think it's a corn, but possibly a leucistic black rat or racer. Just my .02
 
...either way, the dude who owns it is a 100% toolbag. Its such a shame it fell into a guy like that's hands. We got into it big time, last time this snake came up.
 
Actually I would doubt that enough of the corn snake genome has been mapped to accurately test it.
 
They'd probably do something similar to the dna matching in paternity cases. Trying to see if there are certain common markers between them all. And if that snake doesn't have those common markers, then it's not a corn.
 
the problem with that is that they are SOMEWHAT related.....for instance, humans and orangutans share something like 95% of the same DNA. If you happened to test anywhere in that 95%, you'd get an identical match...so basically you have to have the entire genome mapped and compare it to another genome that is entirely mapped....

I dunno....maybe someone with more genetics experience will chime in here??
 
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