Tesseras or hybrids

[Kokopelli]

Thanks for the update. I wish we could examine the look-alikes well enough to discern some obscure characteristic which unequivocally identified them as hybrids.

I don't think there will be such characteristic features since hybrids are too versatile and random in nature, and the more you breed back into the Corn gene pool, whatever those inconsistent features may be, they will become more and more obscure to non-existing.

 

[NiklasTyreso]

hybrids are too versatile and random in nature, and the more you breed back into the Corn gene pool, whatever those inconsistent features may be, they will become more and more obscure to non-existing.

Selective breeding for a trait will develop the trait, independant of hybrid origin.

20 years from now all captive "cornsnakes" will be considered hybrid pet snakes.

Captive cornsnakes should get another trade name, so they will not be misstaken for a wild Pantherophis guttatus, the true cornsnake.

 

[Kokopelli]

Selective breeding for a trait will develop the trait, independant of hybrid origin.

Err... that REALLY depends on on your definition of trait.
The origin of the "Stripe" in the above hybrids is from Gophersnakes(and from what I understand, it behaves as a "dominant" gene in Gophersnakes.

You can do selective breeding as much as you want, but you won't deliberately "produce" a trait that is generated by a single gene that can be inherited- mutations occur randomly, and you can't really "aim" to create one.

You can try, over a very long period of time, to "fashion" a desired look- but it'll be polygenic, and therefore it's hereditary will be in question the moment you outcross the animal.