What is a "sibling"?

[lilwing89]

I'm looking at a lot a lot of breeders' sites and a term I keep seeing come up is "sibling". No idea what it means. Example:

Male MBB Line Red Coastal Jag Sibling

What that means to me is basically some kind of morph of a coastal jaguar carpet python.

Can anybody clarify for me?

 

[Shiari]

A 'sibling' is the gender neutral term for a brother or sister. So, that animal is the *brother* to the animal that displayed that morph. Depending on the genetics (dominant vs. recessive), either that animal was a non-morph product of that pairing and thus otherwise 'normal', or if recessive at least potentially carries the traits that produced that morph.

 

[lilwing89]

Ah I see. In that case, it really doesn't apply to a keeper like me who isn't breeding (yet)