Gen Z is feline this trend. “Calico hair” — a dye job inspired by the black, white, and orange patches that appear on calico ...

With their colorful splotches of fur, calicos are some of the most easily recognized cats. However, calico is not a breed, ...

Stanford Medicine researchers discover mechanisms of sex-linked genetic mutation giving rise to ginger felines.

and found that the skin from calico cats has more Arghap36 RNA in orange regions than in black and brown regions. Leslie Lyons, a feline geneticist at the University of Missouri, said she’d like ...

They then examined calico cat tissues and found that ... responsible for dark brown and black, and pheomelanin, responsible for yellow, red or orange. In orange fur, the more active ARHGAP36 ...

Yet humans seem to have a sweet spot for orange cats ... eyes their color, by cells called melanocytes. These cells can make one of two forms of melanin—the red/yellow pheomelanin and the black ...

While scientists have pinpointed the typical mutations that induce pigment cells in the skin to produce yellow or orange pigment instead of the default brown or black, they had only a rough idea ...

Orange cats are so goofy that people joke ... deletion that causes pigment cells to produce a yellow-red color rather than the default brown-black, solving a mystery that has stumped scientists ...

Nine thousand years ago, humans began domesticating cats. Nine hundred ... pigment cells to produce yellow, orange or red coloration instead of the usual brown and black. Researchers from Brown ...