Quote Originally Posted by Egapal View Post
Pinstripe appears to be dominant other than that normal is basically the dominant expression of the various genes. Keep in mind that many morphs are not mutually exclusive. For instance a snake can be both axanthic and albino at the same time. What you see is not one Phenotype called Snow its two phenotypes albino and axanthic that are both visible at the same time.
so if the pinstripe is said to have a homozygous form that has a phenotype very similar to it's heterozygous form would the pinstripe morph still considered dominant or is it now considered codominant because the full expression of the gene requires two copies?

i understand the concept of double homozygous recessive morphs such as the snow, i think i am confusing the difference between labelling dominant and codominant morphs with dominant and codominant genes.

for example one book i read says that the pastel is a codominant form where as super pastel is the dominant form. but after reading the posts in this thread i now think that pastel is a codom gene that requires two copies of itself to be fully expressed and that a super pastel is not a dominant gene, it is just a visual expression of two copies of the codominant pastel gene but we label it as the dominant or super form.

so i think that when we talk about dominant or codominant in ball python terms we are refferring to whether or not a certain morph has a known super form or not and we are not reffering to the actual genotype of the animal.