From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are ...

“For more than a century, orange coat color in cats has been recognized as an exception to the genetic rules that explain ...

Scientists from Kyushu University have identified the long-sought “orange gene” behind ginger fur in domestic cats—a deletion ...

In a nutshell Scientists have identified a specific 5,100-letter DNA deletion in the ARHGAP36 gene on the X chromosome that ...

The ginger gene for cats has finally been found and explains why 80 per cent are male. For more than 100 years ... the process that produces pigment in skin and hair. The team believes the ...

Any male cat that inherits it turns orange, whereas female cats, with two X chromosomes, need two copies of the gene to do the same. Female cats can be orange, but it’s rare – usually they’re a ...

Researchers at Kyushu University in Japan have pinpointed the X-linked mutation behind orange fur in house cats. The post ...

Orange male cats are uniformly colored, but female cats often have a patchwork of orange and black fur, commonly referred to as tortoiseshell or calico patterns,” Kaelin told ZME Science.

But their distinctive color comes with a genetic twist - most orange tabbies are male ... to the cat.” With help from local vets, the researchers examined skin tissue from four calico cats ...