I agree. It could go either way, though. It's very difficult to look at any obsoleta and say what influence there is in it. It's why bloodlines are important to some of us!

Also, even whitesided "Texas" rats (intergrades who are mostly Texas rat, anyway) have black stripes. As I said in talking about the 'Glades, the whitesided gene represses red pigments really well, so even Texas rats who have a ton of red in them wouldn't show it when homozygous for whitesided.

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