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

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

There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy ...

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

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

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

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

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

“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 ...

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