[earendel83]

Hello,

First sorry for my poor english, i need to improve it, jejeje...

I want to share with you some reflexions about the genetic in this specie...

Actually, there are two morphs, "natural morphs", blotched and striped... at the begining, all of the available animals were blotched, and later the striped ones appear out of australia... one of the most famous breeders in USA said me that the striped morph is a recessive trait... but two years working with them show me that it´s not the reality...

The last year, with the same striped male and with 5 differents blotched females (2 of a friend and 2 mines) we obtain near to 25 striped babies... some example pics there:







This year i bought another striped male (it was impossible for me to find an adult blotched one)... at the moment, only four animals have born, two different cluthes from two different blotched females (which give me the last season only striped babys)... here the results:

May 26th, female 1





June 7th, female 2





So, i think it´s obviously to say that blotched is a simple recesive trait in D. pulcher... and striped morph is a dominant trait... i suposse that all of you are ok with this... following this thinking, i don´t know the parentals of my "second male", but obviosly it´s a D. pulcher striped het. blotched...


After this, i have a question... if i´m in the correct thinking, blotched and striped ones live in the same territory (they´re not a locality), and it´s far easy to find blotched animals than striped ones... how is possible that is more common a recessive than a normal trait? if they share the territory... we still have to much to learn...

Best regards! José R.

[Hannibal]

I don't know much about their genetics, but those are some extremely adorable babies!

[Rob D'heu]

I've been wondering about that for a while . Very interesting indeed .

[victorKR]

Hi Joselito de mis amores

There is a big question. Obviously ,this work show us that blotched trait is genetically transmites like a simple recessive trait but, perhaps diferentes in populations ca'n be cleared or not,is comparable to S.ciliaris ciliaris NT question.

Any one have crossed NT ciliaris with normal ones? Is this trait working like recessive in crossed heritage?


Really nice work my friend,pics can show to the community how much work you spend to know your geckos