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A friend sent me some photos of a beautiful, striped pattern burmese today that got me thinking about the occurrence of this pattern type. Wondering if anyone knows of examples of proven genetic striped burmese around, or are they all so far, just showing the artifacts of low incubation temps. Just curious, as I can't recall if there has ever been an example with burmese shown to be truly genetically based. Thanks,

Kelly

Good question Kelly, my guess is that it is temperature related but since I'm not a genetic-freak-morph-kind-of-guy, some of the others on here may have more insight. It looks like to me that this striped occurance is similar to those that we see in some boas (all temperature related).

Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center
Lake Forest, IL

>>A friend sent me some photos of a beautiful, striped pattern burmese today that got me thinking about the occurrence of this pattern type. Wondering if anyone knows of examples of proven genetic striped burmese around, or are they all so far, just showing the artifacts of low incubation temps. Just curious, as I can't recall if there has ever been an example with burmese shown to be truly genetically based. Thanks,
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>>Kelly
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Rob Carmichael, Curator
The Wildlife Discovery Center at Elawa Farm
Lake Forest, IL

if neither parent was showing this trait, and the majority of the clutch hatched out as striped, that would be a pretty good case for low incubation temps. Especially if the eggs were artificially incubated. I don't believe you would ever see maternal incubation temp problems unless your ambient temps were extremely low. I'm not heavy into the morph scene either, and just don't follow it closely enough to know what's out there. Thanks,

Kelly