markers

Here is a possible het pied male I'm using that passes his three scale wide white belly with thick dark lines on each side of the tail to about half his offspring. Most het pieds aren’t as extremely well marked as him. He was given to me as a 25% chance het but I’m told that all of the similarly marked animals from his line so far have proven including a sister that produced a very high white pied to knock this guy up to a 50% chance het on paper.

http://homevtour.home.comcast.net/~h..._belly_med.jpg

And her is a keeper daughter of his from this year:

http://homevtour.home.comcast.net/~h..._belly_med.jpg

well im not new to balls but in the boa world it is true that het markers exist but this then (as stated) throws the big question are such things like pied ''recessive''?
wouldnt a seconadry stage make these animals an incomplete homozygote?
Jon

In Burmese Pythons some het Granites have the Puzzle pattern that is sort of intermediate between normal and Granite. Also some het Green's have an intermediate pattern between normal and Green with the space between the dark blotches being not being as much smaller than the blotches as usual (I forget what they call this, cinnamon?). But the thing is both are only seen sporadically and there are also some normal looking hets. I think the concept of fully recessive is a nice text book concept that does fit some mutations well but maybe there are some "recessive" mutations that didn't read the text books and have these sporadic co-dom tendencies. Not sure what the text books would call that though.