Quote Originally Posted by paulh View Post
Apparantly the pro geneticists have decided to take all terms involving degrees of dominance and lump them together under "codominance". Good idea, IMO. Three terms (dominant, recessive and codominant) are easier to teach than four terms (dominant, recessive, incomplete dominant and codominant).
Well they were in the community throwing a fit years back and some people switched over to incomplete and some never did. I agree with you that it's better to both share the same term regardless of if it's a blend of phenotype or split up pieces of the phenotype like spots or stripes, because in reality, there are probably underlying pattern genes controlling the pattern a lot of the time that are completely separate from colors and "co-dominant" would at least convey the inheritance pattern across the board. I didn't get deep enough into guppy genetics to fully understand things, but I'd imagine those guppy guys would agree, as different layers of the pigment are controlled separately as well as patterns being controlled separately. The standards often used were developed when our genetics technology was nothing like it is today.