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

After hundreds of years evolving, cats have reached what scientists say is "perfect" genetic form," which sounds like ...

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, according to new studies Cats are ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...