You got me on this one. I think overall it might just be selective breeding. However, the male had no connected saddles, though a couple of aberrancies. The female I posted here reminds me most of the father patternwise.
I had a small litter, but from what I did have, a single baby came out CBLT. There were others that had connected saddles or partially connected saddles, or the beginnings of a laddertail, but stopped after one linkage. I wish my litter had been larger, so I could have had a better idea. It also seems, at least with my litter, that the pastels were more likely to be effected (and most were to some degree or another) by the CBLT pattern, while there was little if any of the pattern in the hypos.
It reminds me of an incomplete inheritance - I don't even know if I worded that correctly, but that is what it reminds me of.
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