I'd say you're half right. Although PB is a recessive gene, and similar to other hypos in visual appearance, it is completely unique from the other garden variety hypos, in the way it acts with the TNeg (true) alb gene. It is allelic with the T neg, and so when combined with the TNeg, it produces a visual, double homozygot in the first generation - the "Jelly". It's almost a type of co-dom, however only works this way with the TNeg. Breedings between PB to other recessive traits like lavender (Tpos) albino, axanthic, anery, whitesided and hypo, do not NOT prove to be codominant, and therefore produce hets in the first generation.



Even though you probably know most of this, I hope it helps a little anyway.



Oh, and one more thing, although I personally do know all of this myself, I think it's only fair to say I plagerized the hell out of what I wrote by stealing it off of Rainer's website. He gives the simplest explanation, and it was easy to copy and paste...so thanks Rainer.

BTW, the picture I posted of the baby turtle was for your viewing pleasure.

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