In ginger cats’ melanocytes, the cells responsible for color tones, the ARHGAP36 gene is much more active. 3 Professor Hiroyuki Sasaki, one of the lead scientists behind the study, started it as ...

Experts have been able to figure out a lot about cat coat colors, but the orange coat, in particular, had left them with questions. That is, until recently. Researchers discovered the genetic ...

Typically, mutations that lead to yellow or orange fur in animals (and red hair in humans) occur within genes that control for color. And those genes aren’t carried on the X chromosome.