Very good info, thank you. That is where it starts, but could it also be that some of the motley that are not "het" stripe, actually in fact have some of the genetics at a molecular level that make a stripe a stripe. Unless it is a single base pair change on a single allele, things can get very "fuzzy". And even saying and demonstrating that motley is dominant over stripe and that they are both alleles effecting the same loci, it may not be 100% dominance it may be 97.3% ect.ect. Also what "so and so's" stripe motleys exibit in their collection, when compared to "so and so's" motley stripes, they may be so overal genetially unrelated due to their diverging "ancestry" or "parental lines", that they have slighty differing observed results.
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Jeff Benfer

My lady, she's got big regius's

You'll get your regius's to the wall, man!

1.0 pastel Python regius

1.1 mojave Python regius

0.1 normal Python regius

1.3 Terrapene carolina thriunguis

2.3 Terrapene carolina carolina

4.1 Kinosternon baurii

1.1 Malaclemys terrapin terrapin

2.2 double het albino and anerythristicThamnophis sirtalis parietalis

1.0 anerythristic Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis

2.2 Iowa snow Thamnophis radix

0.2 het Christmas albino Thamnophis radix

1.1 double het cherry erythristic, albino Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

1.1 melanistic Thamnophis sirtalis sirtalis

1.1 triple heterozygous for amelanistic,carmel, and stripe Pantherophis guttatus

0.1 anerythristic motley Pantherophis guttatus

0.1 Okeetee Pantherophis guttatus

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