>>If a boa is het stripe, what does that really mean? Is there just one form of genetic striping, or are there variations that are not compatible with each other? Just curious, I've never read much about the genetics of stripes.

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>>Rachel Squier

>>"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." -Leo Tolstoy



Striping is pretty random in boas it seems. I do know that Pete Kahl has a recessive stripe line that you can have het stripes and also Conley Herps works with the super stripe trait which is also believed to be a recessive trait of some sort. There are however quite a few aberrant lines out there that produced aberrant boas in the first breeding from only one striped parent. Striping is just getting so random that the ones with the genetic lines out there really need to prove them out and work with them to the fullest. We could use another stripe trait like the superstripe. I wish Bob Clark would have been able to get more out of the striated boa project. That animal was awesome.
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