It has been known for decades that it is genetics that gives orange tabby cats their distinctive colouring, but exactly where ...

I have two ginger cats and two calico cats - and in my house, it's the ginger felines who are the most mischievous and vocal.

Two separate research teams have detailed the answer in two studies published Thursday in the journal Current Biology.

The lost link in a gene called ARHGAP36 makes it so that the cells in orange felines produce lighter colors for their skin, eyes, and fur tone. In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for ...

Scientists at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan explained in a paper published last week that orange cats are missing a ...

From Tama, Japan's most famous stationmaster calico cat, to the lasagna-loving, ginger Garfield, cats with orange fur are ...

A Stanford-led study has identified a mutation on the X chromosome that causes orange fur in cats. The mutation switches on ...

Scientists believe a gene mutation produces more orange fur in males and may also explain their friendly nature ...

Researchers have discovered how orange cats got their coats — and why so many of them are male. The coat color comes from a ...

"These ginger and black patches form because ... In the study, researchers analysed DNA from 18 cats – 10 with orange fur and eight without. They found that all orange cats shared a specific ...

Scientists have now uncovered why 80 per cent of domestic ginger cats are boys - and it is all to do with the Arhgap36 gene. This piece of DNA, also found in humans, usually controls the nervous ...

Female cats can be orange, but it’s rare – usually they’re a patchwork of orange and black (tortoiseshell or calico ... Still, he suspects the ginger cat stereotype is more about gender than genetics ...