Whew, after a good night’s sleep. Thank you, hot chocolate (no coffee after noon anymore, darn blood pressure, sucks getting old), I realized i left off two more things.
First, I think some of the marker confusion is because the markers can be different with different dominant genes. Het pied normal looks different from het pied leo, but there are markers for both morphs. So you need to consider how the dominant gene changes the marker. Looking at you, yellowbelly.
Second, I really hope the DNA project is going to help clean up some of the mess, and that the community will accept that. It may be rough, but I think it will be good in the long run to be able to say for certain if a particular named gene is truly a separate gene or just a different line of another. Might hurt some feelings, and wallets, but the community can then just shift to keeping known lines separate. Not going deeper here, belongs on a different thread, just saying.
It’ll be interesting if the DNA test ever gets accurate, fast and cheap enough. People might start requesting a copy as part of the sale…