Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their ...

Cats are always special, with every feline having a special story to tell. Whether it is the tale of their birth or their ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

This is also why calico and tortoiseshell coat colors – the two cat coats with some orange – are almost exclusively female. “These ginger and black patches form because, early in development ...

So, female cats are more likely to have a mixed coloring, usually including orange with black patches. Professor Hiroyuki Sasaki, one of the lead scientists in the study and a geneticist at Kyushu ...

Scientists have finally unraveled the long-standing mystery behind orange cat fur, pinpointing the Arhgap36 ... Arhgap36 pigment cells have the colour black or brown. In females, the coat colour ...

Two new studies found that a small, missing piece of DNA located next to a specific protein resulted in orange fur coloration in cats.

Orange cats have a unique genetic mutation that gives them their special coats — and this mutation also explains why so many of them are male, two new studies find. Many animals have orange hair ...

Scientists have finally narrowed down on a long theorised elusive genetic mutation that makes orange cats so unique, unlike any other mammal.While the orange fur colour can be seen across mammals, ...

Female cats with one copy of sex-linked orange appear partially orange—with a mottled pattern known as tortoiseshell, or with patches of orange, black and white known as calico. That's due to a ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna ... the gene to be fully orange, making them less common. If females inherit one orange and one black gene, they develop ...

Female cats, however, have two X chromosomes. If one of these happens to have the orange mutation, the process of X-inactivation will produce orange, brown or black patches depending on which X ...