Sable

What Sable looks like

Incomplete dominant; white dorsum with creamy coloration. Allelic to Cappuccino

Produces darker, more saturated coloration. Heterozygous animals show intermediate expression; homozygous express full Sable phenotype. Part of allelic complex with Cappuccino at the same locus. Sable x Cappuccino crosses did NOT produce Super Cappuccino, proving these are separate alleles despite occupying the same gene locus.

How to identify it: Sable animals appear darker and richer in coloration. Het animals show subtle darkening. Homozygous Super Sable extremely dark, nearly melanistic.

How Sable is inherited

Sable follows a incomplete dominant inheritance pattern, carried on the Sable allele (locus SA).

Combo morphs with Sable

• Highway Sable

  Compound heterozygote carrying Highway and Sable at the same locus (SA/CAPP/HWY allelic complex). Distinct phenotype from either Highway/+ or Sable/+ alone. Community naming is still forming -- "Highway Sable" is a working descriptor. No documented health issues. Source: Omni Geckos (omnigeckos.com/highway/).

• Luwak

  Sable x Cappuccino compound heterozygote. NOT a single allele. Allelic complex expression from two different mutations at the same locus.