If it wasn’t immediately obvious that the lazy, lasagne-eating Garfield was a tom cat, then his orange fur should have given ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

If a male inherits this gene from either his mother or father then he will be Garfield-ginger, but if a female gets passed ... Only in rare cases where a cat has an abnormal number of chromosomes ...