Researchers found that cats with a shorter repeat in the androgen receptor gene purr more. Males are more vocal, females may ...

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And these hairs do many things: They give a cat sensory data. They protect it from heat and cold, wind and rain They even help a cat manufacture vital nutrients like vitamin D. But, as meticulous ...

Demonstratively, ginger cats are much more likely to be male than female. The teams found that this is in part because of the ARHGAP36 gene, which is only carried over on the X chromosome.

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More often, female cats wired with the ginger gene have coats that are patchy calico or a “tortoiseshell” blend. This comes from having the orange-coloring mutation on one X chromosome and a standard ...

Any male cat with the mutation dubbed “sex-linked orange” will be entirely orange due to a random deletion of a section of its DNA in the X chromosome. However, a female cat needs to inherit ...

so any male cat with this mutation ends up orange. Due to X chromosome inactivation, female cats require the mutation on both X chromosomes to be fully orange, which is statistically less likely.