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

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 ...

The “meow-tation” that gives ginger cats their distinct fur has been discovered. A small deletion in a gene on the ...

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 ...

Ginger cats - such as lasagne-loving Garfield - are both cultural icons and popular pets. But their distinctive color comes with a genetic twist - most orange tabbies are male ... researchers examined ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...