[MPLexus301]

I have been doing some digging on breeding, genetics, and morphs and I could not find a concrete answer regarding the almighty stripe.

It seems that even two striped parents may not necessarily produce striped offspring, and that people who breed one striped animal to one banded get a roughly 50/50 ratio. I just can't figure out if this is a dominant, recessive, or co-dominant trait.

Thanks so much

[acpart]

I have read that it is dominant, and your explanation of results bears that out. Two striped adults may each have 1 gene for stripe and one for non-stripe. When bred together (if you do the punnett square) you will see that statistically 1 will have 2 stripe genes and will be a stripe, 2 will have one stripe and 1 non-stripe gene and will be a stripe and 1 will inherit the non-stripe gene from both parents and will not be a stripe (and should not have any genes for stripe so will not produce stripes). What I don't know is whether a gecko with 2 genes for stripe looks any different than a gecko with 1 stripe gene. My experience this season worked statistically: stripe x non-stripe parents, 4 babies of which 2 are striped.

ALiza

[HepCatMoe]

i have also heard of getting stripe from two nonstripe parents.

that would mean there is at least one strain out there that is not dominant.

most likely there are multiple strains of stripe out there.

[Dez.G]

hello,
This year I bred a male amel stripe to 2 unstripped females (one amel and one het amel) and I've got :
3 males amel, 2 females amel, 2 female amel stripe, 1 female het amel, 1 female stripe het amel.
so 3 stripped on 9.
at the moment, to me that's a dominant trait, but the idea of a superstripe is not impossible at all.
I've got a female with a very solid stripe from head to the end of the tail, and she's coming from ghana. Maybe a different trait, maybe not, I will see the result next year when I will be crossing the lady with my male, I will let you know ^^