A combo in the blue eyed leucistic complex is different than a combo of different genes like bumblebee. This is because all the mutations in this complex appear to be different mutations of the same gene (alleles). Because mojave and lesser are different mutations of the same gene there is no third normal copy of that gene in the lesser//mojave combo leucistic so it can't produce normal. It also can't produce a leucistic when bred to a normal because it can't give two copies of the same gene to the same offspring. This was actually proven several years ago by Morph King when they bred mojave lesser leucistic males to a large number of normals and produced only about 50/50 lesser and mojave. It now looks like we have several allele complexes so this new idea is something we all need to get up to speed on.

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