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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

>>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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That's what I was thinking, that's it's more of a random trait. Thanks for the info. I was actually going back through my records/papers and found that one of my het albino girls is supposedly also het stripe.
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Rachel Squier
"The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life." -Leo Tolstoy

What ever happen to the straighted boa???? Isn't that the name they were using for that one????

There is the Danny Bristow striped boa, it is a codom trait

>>What ever happen to the straighted boa???? Isn't that the name they were using for that one????

Unfortunately the Striated boa died and I believe it never produced.
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Here are a couple examples of one abberant line of Central American dwarf boas.

The top pic is what I believe to be a homozygous or "super" example. It is a more extreme version with only partial pattern/extreme abbarancies.

The bottom pic is what I believe to be a heterzygous example. It was produced by breeding a slightly abberant male (brother of the snake in the top pic) to a normal female. Four of the 9 babies from this litter are showing slight abberancies like striped tails. This is a genetic mutation and has been proven over three generations now. I believe it to be codominant but will need to do some more selective breedings before saying for sure.

Weird for sure. I would definitely be interested in hearing more about this line in a PM. Please feel free to send us lots of info and pics. Any chance to get in on this project? Please send me a message about them. I love that top pic.
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