What's the dif between red and high rufus chocolate agouti?

[MsTemeraire]

Thank you so much for posting this. I am fascinated by this. I would love to read the research, is it available anywhere?

I attached the link to the paper in my post but in case you missed it, here it is again:
A composite six bp in-frame deletion in the melanocortin 1 receptor (MC1R) gene is associated with the Japanese brindling coat colour in rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculus)

This is the bit - highlighted - where they say they can't find a difference between ED and ES, except there is one other allele there (aside from e and ej):

 

[judymac]

I attached the link to the paper in my post but in case you missed it, here it is again:

Fabulous! I totally missed the link. Thank you so much, until I find the newest research, all I have to go by are the old standby ideas, I so appreciate this.

 

[MsTemeraire]

Fabulous! I totally missed the link. Thank you so much, until I find the newest research, all I have to go by are the old standby ideas, I so appreciate this.

You're welcome! Most if not all the studies are out there. Googling "Fontanesi + rabbit" will bring up some, Luca Fontanesi being one of the principal researchers and having a usefully unusual name, although it mainly brings up links to the book he co-wrote - which contains all the research done (at an eye-watering price). I do have a copy, but tend to refer to the papers online instead. The papers come up if you search Google Scholar, this link might help - Google Scholar search