Entry 30Pattern colour
Orange Pattern
Orange in the pattern.
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What it looks like
Orange Pattern is the warm side of a crested gecko's pattern: orange markings within the patterned areas, separate from the body colour underneath. Foundation Genetics describes it running from yellow through light orange, the most common shade, to a deep reddish orange.
Orange pattern has a habit of fading as a gecko grows up, and Foundation Genetics notes that a few lines keep a vivid orange into adulthood. It also reports that Phantom tends to turn orange pattern brownish. Orange in the pattern isn't the same as an orange base colour, and an orange gecko isn't automatically from a Tangerine line.
The series
Same animal, same seed. Only this gene changes. Open any one in the builder.
Named combinations
Morphs that need this gene and at least one other.
Halloweeneasy to breed
Vivid orange pattern on a dark base: orange and black, like the holiday. Foundation Genetics keeps white out of a true Halloween.
NeedsBlack BaseOrange Pattern
Tri-Colortakes some work
Three distinct colour zones: white pattern, orange pattern and the base colour. Having both pattern colours does not guarantee three distinct colours will show.
NeedsWhite PatternOrange Pattern
Notes
How it is inheritedFoundation Genetics proposes that orange pattern is passed on as its own dominant trait, separate from white pattern, so one gecko can carry and show both colours. Another view sees warm pattern colour as something built up by selection over generations. Foundation Genetics also reports that a line can be pushed toward more orange or more white within a generation or two. Orange and white pattern together can make a Tri-Color, though having both doesn't guarantee three distinct colours will show.
Where breeders differWhether orange pattern is one dominant trait or a colour built up by selection hasn't been settled, and no one has shown that every patch of orange comes from the same gene. A gecko of unknown background can't be assumed to carry a particular orange-pattern gene; its colour may simply reflect selection.
Where it came fromNo single founder is on record for this name. It is shared hobby vocabulary.
In Gecktopia
Orange Pattern is a strength in the game, inherited separately from the base colour and from White Pattern. A pairing preview lists it as a possibility rather than giving odds.
- Passed on in the game as a strength rather than copies.
Sources
Anthony and Jessica Vasquez, Tom Favazza and breeder collaborators, date not established
Male Tricolor Pinstripe Cr-1491
Pangea Reptile, date not established
Foundation Genetics contributors, date not established
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