Paradox, is it always genetic?

Or can environmental factors during incubation cause the effect as well?

It's more typically congenital issues; a particular line of cells that had a copying error that 'broke' a mutation explain red spots on aneries and snows very easily. How early in the development of the embryo/fetus would determine how large a patch. And chimeras definitely can and do happen, maybe more often that we think because if you have a clutch of all amels, how would you ever tell that one was a chimera?

Not a corn but I figured my question was generic enough to ask in this section. Just hatched a malformed albino House snake, that has a spray of black over about 40% of it's body. Based on the other issues it has, I know that there were issues with it during incubation. So was just wondering if the incubation was to blame for that as well.

Originally Posted by Tavia

Or can environmental factors during incubation cause the effect as well?

I once had a snow female that had a red spot and she got a snow son with a red spot to, but all he other snow siblings did not get any red spots.

It is likely that there is some kind of genetic factor involved that increase the likelihood of getting red spots/patches but it is not a predicable with simple recessive or dominant inheritance.

In humans there are families with increased likelihood of getting twins, but there are no simple genes that can explain the trait.

Environmental factors do probably have some influence to.

Originally Posted by Tavia

Not a corn but I figured my question was generic enough to ask in this section. Just hatched a malformed albino House snake, that has a spray of black over about 40% of it's body. Based on the other issues it has, I know that there were issues with it during incubation. So was just wondering if the incubation was to blame for that as well.

I don't think incubation errors can actually cause a gene to switch off?

My question would be, is it ever genetic? Many have bought paradox snakes and attempted to reproduce them, but not successfully.

I know almost nothing about the nuts and bolts of how Paradox works. But in Sand Boas there is apparently a recessive gene for Paradox and it is predictably reproduced but that's the only species I've ever heard of where it is not random.

I was thinking of that, but really, isn't it just a gene for black speckles? Once there's a predictability to it, then it's no longer a paradox!! That was an unfortunate gene name.

I didn't edit your post, sometimes it does that when I go to reply, sorry...

Originally Posted by Nanci

I didn't edit your post, sometimes it does that when I go to reply, sorry...

I do that all the time down in my own forum, go to hit quote and end up editing that post instead, LOL!

So, what is the technical difference between a paradox and a Chimera and how does one tell which is which?