There is a lot of genetic stuff that seems to slip past most in the herp world. Incomplete vs CoDominance is one of them. There is no mention of incomplete dominance at all in the reptile world. With the multitude of morphs, it would be another never ending discussion about which are incomplete vs codom, so we have to accept that codom is the term.
Another stumbling block is that people prove the "codoms" before they prove "super" forms. Therefore, a Mojave is "het for BEL", which is a more accurate description than "mojave". (I have to qualify the last statement as I suck at visually identifying some of the single allele forms of codoms. Some mojos that proved out just looked like abnormal normals to me)
Just don't get frustrated. Many times, people ARE serious about their "het for Mojave". Do your best to nudge them to the science, but remember the old adage about leading a horse to water....
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