Pinstripe

What Pinstripe looks like

Dominant; raised scales along dorsal edge with white highlighting

Raised scales along dorsal midline creating a distinct ridge or stripe. Dominant expression creates visible raised scalation. Interacts with Tiger to create brindle and reverse pin phenotypes. Homozygous expression more pronounced than heterozygous.

How to identify it: Look for raised scales along the spine/back. Pinstripe animals have noticeably textured dorsal ridges.

How Pinstripe is inherited

Pinstripe follows a dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Pinstripe allele (locus PIN).

Combo morphs with Pinstripe

• Phantom Pinstripe

  Phantom suppresses White Pattern on Pinstripe raised scalation, creating distinctive pattern fade from tail to head.

• Brindlequin

  Five-allele combination requiring Yellow Base + White Pattern + Harlequin + Pinstripe + Tiger at specific expression ratios to create tri-color brindle pattern.

• Confetti

  Dalmatian het combined with Pinstripe het. Dalmatian spots scatter over the Pinstripe dorsal ridge, creating a speckled appearance along the pin line.

• Quadstripe

  Homozygous Pinstripe (PIN/PIN), also called Full Pinstripe. Two copies of PIN produce fully expressed dorsal ridge stripes. The genetics engine labels this the hom_display_name "Full Pinstripe."