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I am interested in trying to get some blotched/normal pattern pacific gopher lines of albino/anery/snow going. Almost all the pacifics I have seen available are either striped or wild caught. I personally don't care for the striped pattern but love the temperment and some of the normal patterns of pacific. So unless I can find a source for a normal pattern pacific snow I am planning on trying to acquire a striped snow male to outbreed to two unrelated normal pattern females in order to establish less related het stock to hopefully get some normal pattern morphs from.

With this in mind I am starting to try and locate any breeders who may be breeding or going to breed either normal or striped pattern snow pacific gopher's. If anyone here on the forums is themselves or knows anyone who will be producing these then please let me know so I can make arrangements.

Thanks in advance for any info or input on this endeavor.

Well as I posted above I was interested in getting some morphs of pacific gophers without the striped trait and was figuring that as a worste case senario I would outcross a striped to unrelated normal blotched patterned individuals and then cross the offspring to hopefully get morphed blotched pattern specimens with which to then outcross.

Recently I was told that the striped gene was co-dominant and that any offspring down the line would be striped as well. Now my genetics are quite rusty and all I remember of co-dominance is the roan color cow example where two otherwise dominant genes when both present were both expressed simultaneously(creating the roan coloration). If I am rembering it correctly that is.

Now my question is if there is anyway to breed out the striped gene to get back to blotched? If not how does it work genetically that a trait can be inherited 100% of the time. If it can be bred out then wouldn't breeding two outcrossed animals together produce roughly 1/4 blotched and 3/4 striped in a worste case scenario? Or am I missing something.

Any info or input would be greatly appreciated.