Alphabet Soup

[Cattle Cait]

In absolutely the most basic, elementary way possible, can someone please lay out what all the little letters mean in rabbit genetics and what trumps what? I'm very close to giving up and calling all of my rabbits "light gray" "dark gray" and "weird gray".

 

[WildWolf]

The A series (color pattern):
A- agouti; dominant over self and otter
at- otter/tan; dominant over self
a- self; recessive

The B series (basic color):
B- black based; dominant
b- brown based; recessive

The C series (amount of pigment produced):
C- full color, or color expressed normally; dominant
cchd- dark chinchilla; dominant over cchl, ch, and c
cchl- light chinchilla; dominant over ch and c
ch- Californian or Himalayan; dominant over c
c- albino; recessive

The D series (distribution of pigment):
D- dense (normal); dominant
d- dilute; recessive

The E series (extension of middle band color):
E- normal extension; dominant
ej- random extension, or Japanese harlequin; dominant over e
e- non extension; recessive, although sometimes it can show up in a rabbit with "eje"
Es- steel; incomplete dominant- I *think* it shows with normal extension ("EsE") or recessive ("EsEs")

Also:
enen- solid
Enen- broken
EnEn- charlie

hope that helps!<br /><br />__________ Mon Jul 22, 2013 7:33 pm __________<br /><br />here's some color charts with the genotype and the color name: http://www.threelittleladiesrabbitry.co ... rchart.php and another good site: http://www.minkhollow.ca/mhf/doku.php?i ... r_genetics

 

[HoppinHalfPints]

I wrote this a while back, hope this helps.

basic-modifiers-and-their-uses-t14807.html

 

[skysthelimit]

Add that the light chinchilla gene is the shaded gene.

 

[Frecs]

Okay, so this brings up a discussion I was having on a FB Silver Fox list about the "blazes" or "spots" I get on about half of a kits from one of my does. Modifiers. Apparently, modifiers rather than genes affect the silver and extent of silvering in SF rabbits. This could also be where the "blazes/spots" are coming from since the skin under the blaze is black, not white.

So, which modifier(s) are involved in the silvering on SFs?

 

[skysthelimit]

It's officially called the Si gene, on it's own locus, not to be confused with agouti tipping or the steel gene.