Scientists believe a gene mutation produces more orange fur in males and may also explain their friendly nature ...

Researchers in the United States and Japan have discovered the genetic basis for ginger cats' orange fur. The ARHGAP36 gene ...

Two separate research teams have detailed the answer in two studies published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

The lost link in a gene called ARHGAP36 makes it so that the cells in orange felines produce lighter colors for their skin, eyes, and fur tone. In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for ...

Researchers in Japan and US have unlocked the 60-year mystery of what gives cats their orange colour.

Scientists have uncovered a decades long mystery behind the unique color of Garfield, Puss in Boots, and Aristocats' Toulouse ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of ...

Still, he suspects the ginger cat stereotype is more about gender than genetics – most orange cats are male. “There are not many scientific studies of the personality of orange cats,” he noted.

A Stanford-led study has identified a mutation on the X chromosome that causes orange fur in cats. The mutation switches on ...