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    Why is the leopard gene more dominant than others?

    Hi!
    something I’ve been curious about for a while is why the leopard pattern tend to show up stronger while breeding than other patterns? Like take ivory leopard for example and how it show up in the ivory. Like if I bred a black pastel with an ivory or some other more patterned type snake it doesn’t seem as it shows up as much... any ideas?

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    Re: Why is the leopard gene more dominant than others?

    Why do peanut butter and chocolate go together, and yet peanut butter and gummy bears do not?

    While leopard may be a single gene--that gene is influenced by dozens of other genes. Sometimes the interaction is a startling visual effect, and sometimes the effect is barely noticeable.

    Three separate Leopard variations pictured.






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    Re: Why is the leopard gene more dominant than others?

    Some morphs are minor mutations, while some are dramatic and vivid.
    Leopard is one of the vivid morphs


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    Leopard is a pattern and color mutation. The leopard tends black in the pattern.

    So for your Leopard Ivory example. The Leopard changes the pattern in the Ivory, which would usually go unnoticed since the Ivory is such a strong color mutation. However, since the leopard adds "black" to the patter, think darkness, this is why the purple patterns POPS in a Leopard Ivory...



    .... I think.
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    Re: Why is the leopard gene more dominant than others?

    Thanks everyone for awesome responses!

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    Re: Why is the leopard gene more dominant than others?

    Quote Originally Posted by lovepig78 View Post
    Leopard is a pattern and color mutation. The leopard tends black in the pattern.

    So for your Leopard Ivory example. The Leopard changes the pattern in the Ivory, which would usually go unnoticed since the Ivory is such a strong color mutation. However, since the leopard adds "black" to the patter, think darkness, this is why the purple patterns POPS in a Leopard Ivory...



    .... I think.

    It is more accurate to say that Leopard (and also YB) are pigment distribution mutants and that Leopard returns a level of pigment distribution to the large-scale removal that Ivory causes. This return of distribution generates the shadowing you see in the Ivory Leo
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