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striped to striped question

Stripes x Striped should produce only striped. If you get something else (mainly motley stripe), one or both of your striped is actually a motley striped. Some motley striped can be difficult to correctly identify. My adult male motley is actually motley striped, but looks almost totally motley, and I've attached a pic of one of his offspring (bred to a stripe) and he looks almost totally striped with only a little motley.
 
Thanks Susan.....

So is it that your motely adult is motley het for striped.... or is it that his markings are a motley and striped mix? I think the one in the picture is gorgeous. What color is he? Anery? A? B?

MissHisssss
 
Just for anyone who is interested and didn't know this: "motley het striped" is the same as "striped het motley" or "motley/striped" or "het motley/striped" etc.

The motley and stripe genes sit in the same place, so it's kinda like if Amel and Anery sat in the same place:

You could have one carrying two copies of amel, and it would be an amel.

You could have one carrying two copies of anery, and it would be an anery.

Breed these together (in this little hypothetical world) and the offspring would have one amel and one anery gene paired up... Incidentally, there would be no normal genes for the production of red or black pigments since both places would be taken up by the mutant genes.

Since "het" means the paired genes are not the same as each other, these offspring would all be "hets" and would look like a snow corn. :)



Kinda kewl that there's so much variation in the motley stripes. Thanks for showing that, Susan... there are always questions about "what does motley X stripe look like" and I think you've shown they can look like either, both, or anything in the middle. :)
 
Thanks Serpwidgets

Your explaination has been very helpful.... and the links you have provided have been saved for further study. Thanks so much for sharing.

MissHisssss
 
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