Ball Python morph
Ball Python (Python regius)
Visual Lavender Albino. Homozygous at OCA2 locus. Lavender-pink base with yellow pattern and ruby-red eyes.
Tyrosinase-positive albinism at the OCA2 gene. Produces a distinctive lavender/pink base color with bright yellow pattern elements and ruby-red eyes. Independent locus from T- Albino (TYR). Animals darken with age, developing deeper lavender and purple tones.
How to identify it: Lavender-pink base color (not yellow like T- Albino). Ruby red eyes. Pattern retains normal ball python shape but in lavender/yellow. Darkens significantly with age.
Lavender Albino follows a recessive inheritance pattern, carried on the Lavender Albino allele (locus LavAlbino).
Because Lavender Albino is recessive, an animal needs two copies of the allele to show the trait visually. An animal with a single copy is called het lavender albino (heterozygous). A het animal looks normal but carries the gene, so pairing two het lavender albino animals produces, on average, one in four visual lavender albino offspring.
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