The gene that causes orange coloration in cats had been pondered for years, but never actually found—until now. Cats with ...

Garfield might be the most iconic orange tabby around, but Hollywood has seen quite a few leading cats of the same color ... pheomelanin is also behind red hair in humans and flashy red feathers ...

It has been known for decades that it is genetics that gives orange tabby cats their distinctive colouring, but exactly where ...

The Afro-Asiatic wildcat (Felis lybica) is the world’s most widely distributed wildcat, but experts and information on the ...

It has been known for decades that it is genetics that gives orange tabby cats their distinctive ... in the cells responsible for giving a cat its skin, hair follicles and eyes their colour ...

They sport faint tabby stripes ... DNA of 352 long-dead felids. Researchers analyzed maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA in bits of cat bone and teeth, as well as skin and hair samples found ...