Morphpedia is a new knowledge base of herp traits, genes and localities. In early October, we launched version 1.0. In the past few weeks, we quietly released version 1.1 which includes new features and have also published many more articles.

Morphpedia now contains almost 150 published articles. We've also added support for multiple categories and now have over a dozen Reticulated Python traits.

Other recently added features:

• Better controls for exploring traits, including:
  • Searching by gene
  • Searching by gene complexes
  • A slider for origin date
  • Links from the trait index in the marketplace back into Morphpedia articles
• Availability data to show how common a trait is in the marketplace
• Symmetrical linking of related traits
• Footnotes, because references are important!
• Ability to share to Facebook - so you can help spread the word about this resource, and get more folks contributing

Upcoming features:

• Graph showing availability date over time for each trait
• Tags generated from complexes and issues
• Improved related trait data by incorporating gene complexes

Find Morphpedia on our website or at www.morphpedia.com along with videos that explain how it works. Please come and contribute knowledge to the community about your favorite genes.

We didn't feel right having all the fun this weekend at NARBC Tinley because we know that many of you can't make it. So we prepared a little treat.

We've just launched Morphpedia. It's our new community-powered knowledge base for herp traits, and it's now live.

We announced this project a few weeks ago and explained why we created it.

• Below are two videos which give an overview of how to use it and explain how you can contribute to it.
• You can read a lot more about it in this document, and this will grow over time as well.
• Please direct questions and comments into the Morphpedia discussion forum.

You can access Morphpedia from the menus or footer or via morphpedia.com.

We hope you enjoy it, and we look forward to your contributions as well.

We do monthly updates to our genetic data. Here are highlights from the updates which just went out, collected over the last month.

Burmese Pythons: (after adding the whole category a few weeks ago):

• added pied alias
• added dwarf tag

Bearded Dragons:

• added phantom leatherback gene

Ball Pythons:

• added chimo and mosaic genes
• removed granite from soul sucker
• changed jolliff tiger to inc dom
• added chocolate/spotnose/wookie complex
• added hidden gene woma to spider complex

To request a trait addition please follow the instructions here: https://community.morphmarket.com/t/how-to-request-a-gene-addition/119

To request a trait change, please create a public topic in our community forums under the appropriate species: https://community.morphmarket.com/

Ever imagine what kind of combos you could produce with an animal you are looking at? Perhaps you like to use our gene calculators to explore different possibilities.

We've just made that easier by adding a Calculate button to the ad page which drops its traits right into the gene calculator (for applicable species).

It initially crosses the traits with a normal. Just click the righthand box to update the right parent to whatever you choose. Let your imagination run wild!

In the Reptile hobby, we classify mutant genes based on how they interact to morph the animal's appearance from its wild form. An animal may carry zero, one, or two copies of a mutant gene. If it only carries one gene (i.e., half the pair), we refer to it as the heterozygous form since it has the mutant gene paired with a the normal/wild type gene. When the pair is present, the animal is said to be homozygous for that gene.

MorphMarket has one of the most comprehensive databases of reptile genetics in the world, and we're constantly improving and expanding it. Our genetics engine is at the heart of our site and powers the search, ad importing, genetic calculators and more.

We've finally broken up the Ball Python Axanthic trait into its multiple lines. You can now search for Axanthics specifically by VPI, Snake Keeper, Jolliff or Marcus Jayne variety. This is an important distinction since these lines are incompatible.