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Re: Brindle, a sexlinked mutant in the black rat snake???

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Posted by meretseger on February 01, 2003 at 12:25:03:

In Reply to: Brindle, a sexlinked mutant in the black rat snake??? posted by Paul Hollander on January 31, 2003 at 19:01:19:

So.... it's kind of like color blindness in humans? I wonder if these snakes have 'barr bodies', where one of the female's W chromosomes is inactive in each cell?
I had no idea there were any reptiles whose sex was chromosomally determined like it is in mammals and birds. Is it just colubrids or are there any other groups of snakes like that?

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