They found 51 possible variants on the X chromosomes of male orange cats and eliminated 48 of them after finding the genomes in some non-orange cats as well. Of the three remaining variants ...

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 ...

Tracking down the reason for this turned out to be far more complicated than assumed, with the fact that about 80% of orange cats are male being only the tip of the cat-shaped iceberg. It was ...

There are more male orange cats than females because this gene is located on the X-chromosome, which males only have one copy of. Females are more likely to be tortoiseshell or calico because they ...

Like people are left-handed or right-handed, cats also have a dominant paw. Studies suggest that male cats are more likely to be left-pawed, while female cats tend to favor their right paw.

Demonstratively, ginger cats are much more likely to be male than female. The teams found that this is in part because of the ARHGAP36 gene, which is only carried over on the X chromosome.

The vast majority of fully orange cats are male, which led scientists to reason decades ago that the genetic code for orange color is carried on the X chromosome. As with other mammals ...

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 ...

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 ...