Hi,
please could someone explain the genetics behind jungle leos? Are they just selectively bred for unusual patterns with other similarly unusually patterned leos?
Is the unusual patterning passed to its offspring when put with another leo morph? i.e. Jungle het albino x albino = unusually patterned albinos.

Cheers,

Dave

Some jungles are genetic and it appears to be a recessive trait.

Some jungles are selectively bred for unusual patterns.

Some jungles are jungles due to incubation temperatures/conditions.

Unless you know the heritage of your specific animal (i.e. did it have jungle parents?) I wouldn't assume that you'll get aberrant patterning.

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Thanks for getting back to me Ssthisto.

Throughout the years many people have thought of the Jungle trait as Line Bred/ Poly Genetic, but recent developments have proven this is not the case in all matters.
Many people buy so called Heterozygous Jungle specimens; but fail to ever produce Jungle animals. So in that case it has been that many people consider it an Incomplete Recessive which means that the Jungle morph, works like a recessive trait most of the time but can vary and act as a line bred trait.

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Jungles is a inherited trait along the same lines of you inheriting facial features of your perants not simple recessive.In simple recessive all the sperm and eggs have the needed info to give you 100% the result your looking for.When it comes to jungles this info is deep in the DNA of the leo.But in jungles only some sperm and eggs has this info so your not garenteed 100% jungle offsping off a jungle to jungle breeding but the longer the generations of breeding jungle to jungle the stronger this info gets and the more likly more of the jungle offspring you will het in a sense.So if you breed a jungle to a normal with no jungle info the offspring will be normal banded but the needed jungle info will be in some off the of the offspring.So if you get two so called het jungles that click this will very like result in jungle offspring.This also applies to striped and reverse striped just replace to jungle with stripe or reverse stripe.After all a jungle is a step up from aberrant a striped & reverse striped are a step up from jungle.In reverse striped there a little more going on but nothing simple recessive.Striped and reverse striped are pretty much the same morph.However in striped the bands are split at the spine and push down to each side of the body and fuse together.But in reverse striped the is ofcourse reversed the bands are push up to the spine and fuse together.