Possible impact of pattern variation?

[asplundii]

I am aware that fused alien heads are common. My question is what influence the more fused pattern style may have on a morph combination that already does that sort of thing, such as a black pastel mojave. I have read that only certain aspects of morphs are directly heritable and the rest appears due to chance but I was hoping someone with a similar appearing snake might have bred theirs and would be willing to share the outcome. I enjoy using the morph calculator but it is limited. It would be cool if they added a feature where you could choose things like "reduced pattern x" or "high expression x" to try out in pairings.

While it all comes down to genetics of some sort, it is a matter of do the right random combination of genes that, in combination, affect the outcome to give you the phenotype you are looking for. With SuperBlk complex animals, the het BluEl genes and the Pied allele seem to push toward a greater occurrence of fused alien heads. Flip side, fused alien heads does not necessarily mean that there is a het BluEL or a Pied allele in the mix, it could just be some random other gene(s) interacting with the SuperBlk gene. Now, you could certainly selectively breed to maintain that phenotype, enriching for the presence of the other random gene(s), but once outside of your collection there is no guarantee the phenotype will be perpetuated because others might not maintain the level of selective breeding you would have.

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Not sure what you were trying to say… I translated your sequence (in all three frames) and I did not come up with any coherent “words”. And a BLAST was equally uninformative…