Mostly a good write up. My major quibbles are with the symbols. In modern genetics, the plus character is the recognized symbol for the normal allele in genetics. And all alleles of a multiple allele series have the same base character(s) but different superscripts except the first mutant of the series, which has no superscript:

s = sharp albino (and s is the name of the locus)
s^c = caramel hypo
s^(plus character) = normal

Everything to the left of the ^ character is the base, and everything to the right of the ^ character is the superscript. I'm using the ^ to separate the base from the superscript because this editor will not do superscripts. It will not do the plus symbol, either.

Paul Hollander

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• Paradigms #3 - ParaHets - BoaMorph, Sun Nov 18 00:25:19 2007
• Excellent writeup Steve! - kblumenthal, Sun Nov 18 09:48:24 2007
• WOW! I am very impressed. I have not.. - creptilia, Sun Nov 18 10:51:55 2007
• Thanks Ron. I used.... - BoaMorph, Mon Nov 26 23:38:52 2007
• WoW!!! Great Job. - midnightherps, Mon Nov 19 09:58:03 2007
• Awesome Steve!!..Thanks for taking the.. - Ruben14, Mon Nov 19 13:22:00 2007
• RE: Awesome Steve!!..Thanks for taking the.. - Paul Hollander, Mon Nov 19 17:57:28 2007
• I thought you might mention the notation - creptilia, Tue Nov 20 13:29:40 2007
• Thanks Paul! That Jackson Lab site... - BoaMorph, Tue Nov 27 01:20:39 2007