of boas. I feel that they express themselves in almost a polygenic fashion under normal circumstances such as with most line bred animals except there do seem to be some subtle markers that are hard to discern unless you have looked at a lot of them. The thing I find is that they really start coloring up later so if their aren't many aberancies (which seems to be another trait that is passed along in some type of incomplete dominance or something)you have to wait to see the inordinant amount of color they pull up in their faces and sides, sort of like a jungle does(which is often another trait that co-exists). Paul, the Harlequins are simply a line of boas(line bred and then crossed out and then bred back into themselves like so many other lines) I often have thought that maybe they have a type of gene that actually "reflects" or matches up with certain genes in a sort of "universal" way like someone with O blood type can donate to all blood types(I think). So if a particular animal has the gene for a trait it can be duplicated without having to have a match as long as one is a Harlequin. The idea that none of them was Harlequin I think is a misconception because we have never seen the other three siblings. Only the two I have which are both DEFINITELY Harlequins. As far as the father he was an F3 that had NO relation to the mother who appeared to be a F1 bci X bcc cross and you will see the influence in my siblings. I think the one thing that would help the most is if the other three siblings were shown or a picture of all 9 babies together. ONLY so that we could look for the bcc influence or markers or whatever.






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Ty Hege
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