Patternless Strip?

[Halley]

I believe that the patternless strip used in the A.P.T.O.R., R.A.P.T.O.R. morph was created by breeding a strip to a reverse strip. However this question popped into my head recently… Why does this make a gecko with a super thin strip? Isn’t a strip just a gecko with a dorsal strip that lacks color, and a reverse strip a gecko with a dorsal strip that has color? I might be off on my strip and reverse strip definitions as I haven’t really studied them, but if I’m right why would breeding a strip to a reverse strip make a patternless strip? My fist assumption and the one that I assume correct is that there is line or selective breeding done after words, is this correct? If not what is it?

Thanks, Nick

 

[godzillizard]

*This is what I feel has occurred with modern leo patterns: ...In the beginning there were only bandeds , then a few hatched out with aberrant patterns, and they were line bred to try and amplify the trait, creating the first "jungles". Next, jungles were bred together, eventually, the first "stripe" was produced--as the pattern was slowly reorienting in the opposite direction of the natural banded pattern. It takes alot of focused line-breeding to overcome the banded dominance (from thousands of years of natural breeding) Then, reverse stripes eventually occured from breeding stripes together. And when reverse stripes were bred to each other or to stripes, the next rung in the evolution of pattern revealed itself--the "patternless" stripe--that's why I like to think of them as "super" stripes. All the Eye traits (Raptor, SS, Blizzard etc.) emerge from this inversion of pattern. A gecko does not need to exhibit a stripe to have the eyes, just come from parents that did...

I believe that the patternless used in creating the Aptor was of HQ lineage--a "patternless" (hypo-esque) redstripe... Hope this helps