Hidden Gene Woma
Gene
Hidden Gene Woma is a ball python color and pattern gene that looks much like Woma, often brighter gold, but is a separate gene. One copy shows; two copies make the Pearl, which is reported to rarely live beyond about a year. It is linked to a neurological wobble and is suspected to belong to the Spider complex.
How Hidden Gene Woma works
One copy shows Hidden Gene Woma.
Separate from Woma. Two copies make the Pearl, which hatches but is reported to rarely live beyond about a year. One reference lists Hidden Gene Woma in the Spider complex but calls that suspected, yet unproven; no locus is set.
- Class
- Incomplete dominant
Reported risk · Health
Linked to a neurological wobble.
Reported risk · Survival
Two-copy Hidden Gene Womas, called Pearls, are reported to rarely live beyond about a year, and some breeders list them as fatal.
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