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

Two separate groups studying the mysterious case of the orange cat coat came to the same conclusion: the orange color happens ...

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

Cats are arguably perfect. At least, evidence suggests that felines, which have evolved with minimal variation and maximal ...

What makes orange cats orange? For over 60 years, scientists have been searching for the answer. Researchers from Japan have ...

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

A newly discovered gene, Arhgap36, explains the rare orange coloring in cats and why most are male. It could have effects ...

Scientists have finally unraveled the long-standing mystery behind orange cat fur, pinpointing the Arhgap36 gene as the key ...

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 ...

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

Researchers already had a rough idea of where in the cat genome to look: the X chromosome. That’s because the vast majority ...