Yellow cats are enormously popular. Their ginger, yellow, and orange fur is believed to go with an equally bright, sunny ...

Are you curious about the colors of Siamese cats? Sapphire blue eyes, dark-colored paws, and creamy bodies covered in soft ...

Two teams of scientists at Kyushu University in Japan and Stanford University in California determined that orange cats' color all comes down to a missing segment of their genetic code.

Approximately 80% of orange cats are males, including the four orange cats owned by the Short Wave team. Scientists have long suspected that orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding ...

Orange colors have been recorded in cats since Egyptian times. Now we know where it originates from.

In cats carrying two different color genes, one black and one orange, X inactivation causes different colors to be expressed in different parts of the body.

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

Sasaki believes that when a mutated ARHGAP36 is expressed as orange fur in cats, the missing part of the gene would have suppressed orange coloration had it been present.

Our little gray tabby has goofball energy that is reminiscent of orange tabby behavior, so we just thought it was funny that she's just an orange cat with a grayscale filter," Sweeney said.

Geneticists Solve the Mystery of Why Some Cats Are Orange—and Why They Tend to Be Males Two new, preliminary papers identify a gene related to a cat’s coloration. The work also explains why ...

For all other animals, including redheaded humans, we know what causes this characteristic colour, but surprisingly, we didn’t know what causes it in cats – and felines in general – until now.

Orange and tortoiseshell house cats (torties) have long been an enigma for hair coloration in mammals: now, the genetic basis of their distinctive coat color has been unveiled.