A Brief History of the Phantom Gene

Text and Images by Anthony Caponetto

History of the Phantom Gene

I first coined the term Phantom back in the mid-2000's after accidentally discovering there was a recessive gene in my best pinstripes, which was the first hot “morph” in crested geckos. 

I tried calling them Patternless Pinstripes, but all the armchair quarterbacking, take-it-too-literal, OCD types kept complaining that they're not actually patternless. I begrudgingly tended to agree.