There's interest, because my jury is still out on a butter stripe I hatched out this season. He's from my Tessera het butter stripe X Butter Stripe.
My problem is that when I purchased the Tessera earlier this year, Don had him labeled as het butter MOTLEY. My sample set was fairly small. The female butter stripe, purchased from John Finsterwald, was the result of a project between he and Don. IIRC, she's ph hypo which I've not proven. Anyhow, the tessera pairing to her proved out the tessera as being het for albino, caramel, and STRIPE. From what everyone has told me, everything I've read, if he was indeed het motley, any non-tessera, non-blotched offspring should have been motley. :shrugs:
The pairing resulted in 4 eggs, 3 fertile, 1 bound that passed on own. The 3 fertile hatched resulting in a caramel, "Thor" my caramel tessera, and DelMonte my butter "stripe". Don and I went back and forth via e-mail compairing photos, etc., with him providing photos of some "wide-stripe" tesseras that looked confusing enough to be either striped, tessera, or striped tessera.
What I'm wondering is if tessera, though dominant, isn't someway somehow linked to motley/stripe. If I remember history right, the tough part is that the tesseras arose from a striped okeetee project?!
And some for what it's worth....Miami motley pinstripes from Nanci, whom my wife thought were more tesseras!