I have a blizzard leopard gecko, and an albino leucistic. What would happen if I bred them? im very confused on how to determine the offspring, or of what creates what. I have a jungle, normal, albino leucistic, and a blizzard gecko. I know the breeding season is basically over, but i was just wondering if anyone can help me to better understand how the morphs work in response to breeding 1 with another.
any help would be appreciated, i want to try and breed them for fun, im not trying to make a business or anything, but just to see if i can.
The first generation of the blizzard x albino leucistic (a.k.a. murphy patternless) would likely be all normal looking geckos unless one of the parents was carrying a copy of the other's recessive genes. Despite their normal appearance, though, they would carry copies of the blizzard gene, the albino gene, and the patternless gene so subsequent breedings could turn up some interesting offspring. The rarest among these would likely be a patternless blazing blizzard.
The jungle trait is actually polygenetic, meaning that it's controlled by multiple genes. It's a product of line breeding rather than mutation of a single gene. As such, it's harder to preserve the jungle trait. I think traits such as carrot tail is the same way.
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