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Greetings all! I'm interested in breeding my female normal phase leopard gecko to my friend's leucistic. I know that the normal trait is dominant and that leucistic is recessive, and that from the two I can bet on having two hets for leucistic hatch (assuming my normal isn't a het for something else, she was bought at a closing pet store that didn't know much about her).

What other traits are dominant and which are recessive? Also, I was told by another keeper that the jungle phase is actually a hybrid between Hemitheconyx caudicinctus and leopard geckos, but that the chance of the eggs being fertile is pretty low. Does anyone have any input on this? What are your success rates for breeding jungle phase leos?

Thanks a ton in advance,
Christina Miller
herptiles.org

(The pic below is Ocelot, my female, she's about 3 years old, ~16.5cm/6.5" long)

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jungle leopard geckos are pure leopard gecko. theyre just selective breed, leopard geckos. dont let whoever told you that give you any more advice, lol.

Well first of all Junlge phase leopards are not hybrids. Its a patterned morph. Still some debate on it being recessive or dominant. Your other simple recessives are albino(all 3 strains),patternless,blizzards. Your dominants or line bred traits are tangs,hypomelanistics,carrot tails,high yellows,pastels,snows etc. Hope this helps.

Line bred traits and dominant traits are not really related...

Dominate traits would still be controlled by a single allele, and are very similar to recessive traits. The kicker is that while a recessive trait has to have two copies of the recessive to express the trait, a dominant trait only has to have one copy.

A line bred trait is controlled by multiple alleles, that is why there is such great variation in line bred offspring.

Here is a breakdown:

XX = wildtype
Xx (recessive trait) = het, does not show the trait
Xx (dominant trait) = het, shows the trait
xx (recessive trait) = shows trait
xx (dominant trait) = shows trait, can even be fatal in some instances

I'm sure Jeff can add to this.
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