Lesser or Mojave? You Decide

There is a middle ground - alleles; different mutations of the same gene.

Take for example phantom and lesser. Those look different enough on their own and have different enough homozygous versions that I don't think anyone would say they are exactly the same thing. Yet together they make a white snake.

Even if there is some overlap in appearance between some of the darkest lessers and some of the lightest mojaves they do in general have distinct looks and different looking homozygous animals. So I think they are distinctly different mutations but there is a relationship in that they are mutations of the same gene. The lesser\\mojave combo white snake (technically not homozygous, not sure if "super" applies either) consistently produces about 50/50 lesser and mojave when bred to normals with no leucistics and no normals produced. This points to the two mutations being at least closely linked and given the white combo I think the same gene. Bumblebee and pewter are examples of combos of unrelated genes that can reproduce themselves with normals but not so for the combos inside a multiple mutant allele group like the lesser white snake complex.