There are several groups currently working on it right now, I know there’s a lab at McGill University who has identified the causative gene for piebald, and there’s a group out of Eastern Michigan University who are working on albino, lav. albino, and ultramel.
It’s still not an easy project because it involves sequencing mutliple ball pythons of each morph (which will cost about $1k), and comparing the genome with a wild type reference (which is not currently publicly available and annotated). There isn’t a huge amount of funding available for ball python genetics (unlike cancer or alzheimer’s) and there’s a limited number of people who are geneticists and also interested in ball pythons.
Also, no, definitely not. Coral glow/banana glow is sex linked, so it’s on the sex chromosomes, but the rest could be anywhere.
Oh yes it definitely would, we’re talking 150+ traits, and some are allelic so even once you identify the causative locus, the nature of the varient would need to be determined (deletion, SNP, copy number variant, etc)
We’ve discussed why this is so challenging in some other threads, I can’t track them all down but here’s one Spider BP Research