Your post was hard to read and confusing, but I did catch the question on how stripes are made...

It's pretty simple, actually. Stripe is a recessive trait and can be combined into morphs using the same methodology as amel, anery, lavender, or any other of the recessive traits.

The lone exception is Motley. The current thinking is that Motley and Stripe sit on the same genetic locus and that Motley is dominant to Stripe. So, if your snake is het motley and het stripe, the phenotypical appearance is that of a Motley.

Not all stripes are fully striped (sometimes the striping is broken), and I'm unclear what causes vanishing stripes at the moment. There's also the cubed appearance which can show up in stripes from motley lines.

But for all pairings not involving motley, you can just treat it as a simple recessive gene and do your breeding normally.


-Kat
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• Help me find a niche - HerpZillA, Fri Mar 3 11:27:22 2006
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