Hi

Would the milk snake markings be produced on the F1 generation of babies from a corn x milk?

Also, what makes the cream/white bands of a milk snake turn apricot (genetically)?

Thanks
Liz

From the corn X milk crosses I've seen, the markings are somewhere between that of the corn and those of the milk. You get saddle blotches stretching into bands, or saddles with really thick borders.

I'm pretty sure that the apricot colouration has been selectively bred - people have chosen the most intensely coloured individuals over and over again to breed to one another and produced animals with orange banding over many generations. If I remember rightly, someone spent quite a long time breeding for the nicest tangerine Pueblans, using quite a lot of linebreeding and inbreeding. He then went to a reptile show and picked up another line of very nice tangerine Pueblan to cross into his... and the results looked like muddy wildtype Pueblans. They just didn't have the right genes matching up.

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Lizards: 2.2 E. macularius, 1.2 H. caudicinctus, 1.0 R. ciliatus, 0.2.1 A. fragilis, 1.1 T. merianae, 1.0 V. niloticus ittibittius
Colubrids: 3.4 P. guttattus, 1.0 P. guttatus X E. climacophora, 1.0 P. o. rossalini, 1.0 P. o. lindheimeri, 0.1 E. anomala
1.2 Lamprophis spp, 1.0 L. g. nigritus, 0.1 L. g. californiae, 1.0 H. n. nasicus
Boids: 1.1 E. c. maurus, 0.1 E. conicus, 4.1 P. regius, 1.1 A. maculosa
We HAD a three-bedroom house... Current lodgers: 1.0 E. c. maurus, 1.1 E. c. loveridgei, 0.1 E. macularius, 1.0 L. t. annulata
Snakes'n'Adders turned my girls into boys - thanks for showing us how to probe.

That clears up my confusion, thanks.