MELAKA: A cat neutering initiative here has earned a place in the Malaysia Book of Records (MBOR) after successfully neutering 202 male cats within a 24-hour period. The corporate social ...

This gene is carried on the X chromosome, which explains why orange cats tend to be male. Because the gene is only on the X chromosome, and male cats – like humans – have an X and a Y ...

This gene is carried on the X chromosome, which explains why orange cats tend to be male. Because the gene is only on the X chromosome, and male cats – like humans – have an X and a Y chromosome, just ...

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 ...

Scientists have long suspected that their orange color was a sex-linked trait — hiding somewhere on the X chromosome of domestic cats. Male cats – just like male humans – have an X and a Y ...

but it also explains why many ginger cats are male. The gene with the missing code is carried on something called the X chromosome. Chromosomes are larger sections of DNA. In male cats there is ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a genetic mutation on the X chromosome of orange, calico and ...

A cat who was abandoned with his mum and littermates in a bin bag and dumped on the roadside can now be found cruising the Cheshire canals. Hugo, a black and white male cat, was rescued by the RSPCA ...

It is commonly believed that a ginger cat is more likely to cause trouble than other breeds but most feline fans might not realise that orange-coloured moggies are predominantly male. Scientists ...

The ginger gene for cats has finally been found and explains why 80 per cent are male. For more than 100 years, scientists have suspected that the reason there are so many more male cats with ...

The marked abundance of male orange cats had long led scientists to suspect the trait is sex-linked—more specifically, tied to a variation in the X chromosome. British geneticist Mary Lyon ...

They knew from the preponderance of male orange cats that the mutation -- dubbed sex-linked orange -- was somewhere on the X chromosome. (As in most mammals, females have XX while males have XY ...