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Darin Chappell
at Wed Sep 26 17:59:27 2007 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Darin Chappell ]
Stripe and motley are different genes, though they are allelic to one another.
If you breed a homozygous stripe to another homozygous stripe, you cannot get anything other than homozygous striped offspring...no motlies are possible.
What happens is that there are so-called striped/motlies (which may, or may not actually carry the striped gene, by the way) which look remarkably similar to homozygous stripes to many keepers. When those animals are bred to each other, or to striped animals, THEN you can get motley looking offspring, but that is only because one (or both) of the parents have been misidentified. ----- Darin Chappell
Hillbilly Herps
PO Box 254
Rogersville, MO 65742
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