It has been known for more than a century that a cat’s X chromosome causes ginger fur – male cats have one copy and females ...

If a male inherits this gene from either his mother or father then he will be Garfield-ginger, but if a female gets passed ...

Now, two studies have finally identified the genetic key to this mystery, solving a puzzle first theorized in 1912. The studies, conducted independently by Japanese and American research teams, have ...

If matings are not arranged on the basis of coat color, and if we assume, for example, that 20% of male cats are ginger (having just one X factor of the orange form), the proportion of female ...

This process results in mosaic patterns in female cats, leading to unique patterns like those of calico or tortoiseshell cats, where orange is combined with other colors like black or white.