Steve Hammond produced a litter last year from Arabesque to Arabesque. There were a number of completely "reverse striped Arabesques" for lack of better definition, ie: no saddles. It is believed that these are the Supers, makeing the homozygous a different phenotype from heterozygous.

Hypos being incomplete dominant was said in Rich Ihle's defineing article. Also, when an incompletely dominant trait is crossed with another mutant gene, the incomplete dominant trait is expressed in a blendin of traits, such as a white and red flower yielding pink. I am unsure on this being true about hypos, but if anyone should be trusted it would be the man who worked through generations of trials to prove out the genetics. Also, from what I know, Dominant and Incomplete Dominant traits are passed and inherited in the same way, it is the combination with other genes that causes the varience.

If the Purple Patternless, and Black Patternless do end up being definate Super Motleys, we will have a co-dominant example for the Boa world.

Conversations such as these are great for people to read and learn from. So much is posted misleadingly, and if not corrected leads to false truths corrupting our understanding. The method for Salmon/Hypo inheritance, Pastel definition, and Harlequin Dominance all need thorough discussion. A new topic for the next chat session!

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