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

In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for color tones, the ARHGAP36 gene is much more active. 3 Professor Hiroyuki Sasaki, one of the lead scientists behind the study, started it as ...

An orange cat called Boots hilariously rests his bottom on his brother Calypso's head. Their owner, Ryan Sweeney, went viral on social media after sharing the theory that gray tabbies are the same ...

Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, orange. He is orange in the same way that some people are redheaded, some ...

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 ...

A 2012 survey found that people are more likely to view orange cats as friendly compared to other cats. But despite their popularity, the genetic basis of their striking fur color has puzzled ...

So, it’s less likely that a female cat would receive two copies of the Arhgap36 variant that produces orange color. For a male, however, the cat only has to receive one copy of the gene.

Your orange cat may host a never-before-seen genetic pathway for color pigmentation, ... Studying cats’ coat colors, for instance, has informed various aspects of modern genetics, she says.

In orange cats, the missing segment is located on an intron, or noncoding region, of the ARHGAP36 gene, which is also in neuroendocrine tissues ... A Whole New Cat Color Has Emerged; ...

All orange cats have this deletion, but non-orange cats do not,” Kaelin explained. “The mutation is not located in a gene (the part of the genome that encodes for proteins).