Thank you for the response chesterhf. That is a major flaw in the hypothesis. Thanks for pointing it out. I suppose it was this paper which caused me to consider the possibility as somewhat likely: In Silico Analysis of Gene Expression Network Components Underlying Pigmentation Phenotypes in the Python Identified Evolutionarily Conserved Clusters of Transcription Factor Binding Sites
I’m sure it probably made the rounds here when it was published. I’ll have to delve a bit deeper into the older threads. It isn’t the greatest source of evidence, that is for sure.
There are other possibilities of course, such as promotor mutations for pigmentation genes.
Yes I saw that. I’ll probably be looking at it later, although there isn’t much one can derive without some high end computation…maybe I can negotiate with a colleague at work.