Originally Posted by
terrapins
Great! So there's just one issue left - uniformity of usage. Your group needs to decide on the use of the word MARBLE in phenotype. Whichever route you take, it has to be applied uniformly to all strains where applicable. This is all I'm after. To review just in case it got lost in translation (I may have added to the confusion by not having been specific with the gene combinations; my apologies for that):
Will MARBLE in a phenotype name be used to indicate a marblized appearance regardless of the gene combination causing it or will it stand only for the gene combination causing the expression and thus only in the presence of M/+, M/M, or M/Gm (conversely, in their absence, marbling phenotypes caused by Gm/+, Gm/g, Gm/Gm will therefore not merit MARBLE)?
This is key because of its significant precedent usage in our phenotype library where genotype and phenotype names are one and the same and in use since our founding a decade and a half ago and even goes further back beyond the boundaries of TAS to the time Norton wrote her article on the topic in 1988. It is also in keeping with one of your group's new/revised rules on naming which states:
"b. A major or significant mutation will be given the name used by the person who originally discovered the new gene so long as the name does not cause confusion with the existing names of freshwater angelfish genotypes and phenotypes."
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