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Fat colour and fur colour in different varieties of rabbit

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    Alarge sample of many varieties of rabbit, fed on diets containing colouring matter, showed a very much higher proportion of yellow fat in true albino (27·2%) than in other (1–9%) rabbits.

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    Yellow fat occurred more frequently in albino males (30·1%) than in albino females (13·2%), but in coloured rabbits yellow fat occurred in about the same proportion for males (1·9%) and females (1·8%).

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    Indoor feeding resulted in greater fat deposition than outdoor grazing but the fat of grazed animals tended to be more deeply pigmented.

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    W. King Wilson & F. J. Dudley

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Wilson, W.K., Dudley, F.J. Fat colour and fur colour in different varieties of rabbit. Journ. of Genetics 47, 290–294 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986253

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