Entry 25Pattern
Snowflake
White flecks scattered over the gecko, wherever there is White Pattern to build on.
SNOWFLAKEWhat it looks like
Snowflake scatters small white flecks across the body. One copy flecks moderately, two flecks heavily.
It cannot show on its own. Snowflake needs White Pattern underneath it, and a gecko with no White Pattern carries Snowflake without ever showing a fleck.
With Lilly White the two go nearly unicolor white. A Lilly White keeps patches of its own colour, and the flecks land in exactly those patches, so more of them leaves less colour showing.
The series
Same animal, same seed. Only this gene changes. Open any one in the builder.
With another gene
The same gecko before and after.
Nothing to build on
The same gecko with its White Pattern taken away. Snowflake is still carried and there is nothing to see, because White Pattern is what it flecks into.
With Lilly White, close to unicolor
A Lilly White on its own keeps broad patches of colour along the flank. Add Snowflake and the flecks fill those patches in.
See also
White Patternone covers the other
Snowflake requires White Pattern to express. Snowflake is epistatic to WP. Without WP, no snowflake phenotype appears.
Lilly Whitestrengthen each other
Lilly White dramatically boosts Snowflake expression, producing near or full white coverage. Synergistic enhancement.
Notes
In the genetics dataCreates white spotting/flecking pattern in snowflake-like formations. Epistatic to White Pattern. Snowflake requires WP to express. Heterozygous shows moderate snowflake spotting; homozygous shows enhanced spotting. Synergistic with Lilly White to produce near-full white coverage.
Telling it apartSnowflake animals show white fleck/spot patterns. Expression requires WP. Combined with Lilly White produces nearly unicolor white.
On the evidenceSnowflake is epistatic to White Pattern and cannot express without it. Synergistic with Lilly White confirmed. Source: Foundation Genetics Part 2.0.
HistorySnowflake was identified as an epistatic pattern modifier.
Entry 25 of 32. Every gecko on this page was drawn from its own genes just now, by the renderer that draws them in the game. For the written reference and a pairing calculator, see the crested gecko morph guide on ReptiDex.