Every year there seems to be more interesting occurences of genetic paradox's...they don't always have immediate answers.My first reaction to the news of the patternless Harlequins was,"What in the *$@ does this mean!?!"(among several other expletives which I will leave to imagination ) I've always felt that the first thing to do at the onset of any anomolous occurence,or,results within a breeding project,is to repeat the process,second would be to think of backcrossing the anomoly to either,or,both parents,(separately with opposite sexed offspring if possible,a male back to the mother/female back to the father,etc...)I'm very happy & excited for Brendan,but,also intrigued by what will happen when I breed the two F3 sisters!(???)I tend to analyze things realisticlly,and,I honestly do NOT think that both of the animals he bred were heterozygous for a genetic patternless boa...I also don't (realisticlly) expect to pop out patternless boas when I breed the females...What I do hope for is more extreme variation! I think,based on what we've seen so far,that there is a measure of unpredictability here & my plans are to continue to show the results as we stumble over trying to describe them...can you imagine a patternless solid orange "hypo"?! or, a patternless T positive albino?

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