Vanishing Stripe

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Vanishing Stripe (aka: Vanishing Pattern Stripe)
Most Commonly Used Name: Vanishing Stripe
Mode of Genetic Inheritance: Recessive + Selective Variation?
Type: Single Mutation + Selective Variant

 

Vanishing Striped corns are selective variants of the Striped mutation.  At least, that’s what we know toDAY.  Breeding trials by some corn keepers are currently under way to determine if what causes low stripe volume and/or vanishing pattern is a polygenic trait or a mutation.  At this time, it appears that the cause of low stripe volume and/or vanishing pattern is the work of polygenetics.

 

Important Note:
The advertising images on our web site are representations of the average adult example of each morph.  These images are not renderings of the actual animals being offered, (except for uniquely offered snakes found in the SURPLUS section of this web site).  We do not provide pictures of individual hatchling snakes for sale, nor do we recommend that you ever choose a new pet based on an image of its neonatal form.  Corns change so dramatically from hatchling to adult, they will NEVER have the same colors or contrasts throughout maturity. While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively clones of each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in each animal being similar but not identical to others of its morph. The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will exchange your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

What to expect:
Some Vanishing Striped corns start with some or alot of dorsal striping, while others have very little or no stripe when they hatch (these are rare toDAY).  Regardless, the name Vanishing Striped Corn applies to Striped corns that hatch without striping AND those that hatch with striping but lose it with muturity.  Most of our’s have some striping and lose it fairly rapidly (within the first year), resulting in adults that are a pale version of their color mutation and only the area between two different colored ground color zone indicates that a stripe was originally there.  Most Vanishing Striped corns have “tweener” markings (i.e. ovals, rectangles, bowties) on the dorsum that are located in pattern zones that would be between wild-type pattern blotches.  They almost completely fade with maturity, but often, in strong light, they can still be seen in some adults.

 

General Note:
While most of the snakes we produce will mature to resemble the featured adult image(s) on our web site, unlike manufactured products that are respectively identical to each other, the nature of polygenic variation results in no two specimens being exactly the same.  The snake we select for you may not mature to be identical to the pictured examples, but will be chosen based on our experience of observing which neonates will mature to properly represent their respective morph.  We take this responsibility very seriously, and therefore publish the guarantee that we will replace your SMR snake if it does not mature to be like our advertised examples.

 

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