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kathylove
at Sun May 7 00:37:22 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by kathylove ]
recessive trait such as stripe and motley. It is a selectively bred trait that often takes many generations of selective breeding to recover, once you have "diluted" it with a non-zigzag mate. I expect it is controlled by multiple genes and probably works in a similar way to other selectively bred types such as various specialty amels (candycanes, amel. okeetees, sunglows, etc).
Interestingly, I have bred my own line of zigs to several other unrelated lines and found that sometimes they produce a lot of zigs, and sometimes they produce mostly or all normals. It is just not predictable in the same way that stripes and motleys are.
So to answer your question, I would expect normally patterned babies that are het for stripe, although a few babies (or grandkids) might show some fused blotches - or they might not.
Hope that helps.
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