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periodically we wonder whether the jungle pattern is line bred, dominant, recessive, codom or all of the above. Well, today I hatched my first jungle from non-jungle parents. I don't have a picture yet because I just got home from vacation to find her. The mother is a SHTCT het for albino. She gets her albino gene from the father of the hatchling (a banded tremper albino) to whom she is being bred back to get hybinos. I actually have 2 of his SHTCT female offspring who are breeding with him. SO far together, I have hatched 8 from these 2 females: 5 are albino, including an albino jungle. The banded tremper male, incidentally, was paired 2 years ago with a stripe and produced 50% striped babies, but this is the first time he's produced a jungle from a non-stripe mate. I guess that makes a case for the possibility of a gecko being het jungle. What do you all think?
Aliza
Aliza
It takes multiple genes to sit just right to outwardly exhibit the trait. You can "stabilize" a polygenetic trait by line/selectively breeding it for multiple generations, and eventually, it can end up acting very similar to a mono recessive. Still, those pesky bandeds have a way of occaisionally showing up...thanks to thousands of years of natural selection 