Okay, I hope I'm not putting my ignorance on display here but I would like to know the general concensus regarding the Lesser complex. I should preface this by saying that I have NOT seen all of these in person and I am asking all of this out of curiosity.
My understanding is that you can put any of these morphs together with any other or itself to create a Blue-eyed Leucistic: Butter, Lesser, Mojave, Phantom (any others?). My question has two parts, first, is it generally believed that these are alleles of the same gene?
Secondly, if you breed a BEL (say a Butter/Lesser for example)to a normal you should get Butters & Lessers (& normals)but can they be positively identified as one or the other? In other words, do the alleles maintain their unique character?

The reason I ask is that I am wondering if it has been conclusively shown that they are all in fact unique traits or merely the same gene filtered and influenced by the various wild lines from which they originated.

Thanks for your thoughts,
John

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