They say cats have nine lives. But ginger cats must have at least ninety. With all the wild, silly, and totally unpredictable ...

Cahn said that, for each gene, a cat inherits one copy, called an allele, from each parent. This determines how a particular ...

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

Researchers identified an unusual genetic mutation in orange domestic cats that has not been found in any other animal, according to a new study.

Recently, butlers to orange-colored cats got a bit of a shock when reading the news, as headlines began to call out their ...

That overactivity shifts their fur color from dark black-brown to the ... s another twist: a white-spotting gene. Tortoiseshell cats have intermingled patches of black and orange.

Scientists have identified the genetic mutation responsible for the ginger coloration in domestic cats —a phenomenon never observed in mammals.

the same basic mechanism underlying red hair in humans applies to orange cats, too: their pigment cells switch from making eumelanin pigment (brown/black) to making pheomelanin pigment (red/orange).

Orange cats may be known for their silly behavior ... normally produces black or brown pigment. What increased expression of a ARHGAP36 does it is destroys that signaling pathway, or it inhibits ...

Many an orange cat-affiliated human will vouch for their cat's, let's say, specialness. But now scientists have confirmed that there is, in fact, something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines.

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