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It looks like a nice Gradient from Blue to red, so how would we go about putting this into groups?

Like this:

(Please ignore the bad lines/boxes, I wanted to get this response back same day.)

The red is ‘High red’, which means high amount of red from the red polygene

The yellow is Some or ‘Medium red’, which means some red polygene

And the blue is ‘Low red’, little to no red polygene acting on it

Now this isn’t cut and dry, this sorting method has quite a bit of leeway. In fact the Punnett square should look a bit more chaotic, like this:

(Put the original next to it as a reference)

So terms like that are vibes based, but I feel are better than using an R/r model for this polygene. Turning polygenes into a dominant/recessive (or Co-dominant and incompletely dominant) single gene is something I feel makes more sense when it has more of a ‘cutoff’ in the Punnett square, like with the Spotted polygene in cats. That gene affects the stripes on a Mackerel tabby (a Mackerel tabby’s stripes kinda look like a tigers, straight and vertical stripes!), it ‘breaks’ them apart and makes them look more like spots than stripes!

(Image from Sparrows Garden page about tabby genetics! Cropped to show relevant information.)

This polygene is often simplified into Sp/sp, as there is a point where the stripes are ‘broken’ apart enough to look like spots instead of stripes! I personally feel like this series doesn’t have a gene that falls into this category yet, but there may be one later that could work with this type of simplification!

But it is up to you, if you feel simplifying it to R/r works better feel free to use it, but regardless of what you feel is best for your visual guide keep the note mentioning the original project has a more detailed explanation of the polygenes!

Again I am honored to have a visual guide being made by a fan! I hope it’s a fun endeavor for you, and take breaks as needed, no sense in burning yourself out over this!

Whenever you have any part of this posted I would love to have a link sent in my askbox! Of course if you want to, you don’t have to if you feel like it!