Orange male cats are uniformly colored, ... Most end up displaying a mosaic of orange and black, a patchwork quilt of fur caused by a genetic process called random X inactivation.

Many an orange cat-affiliated human will vouch for their cat's, let's say, specialness. But now scientists have confirmed that there is, in fact, something unique about ginger-hued domestic felines.

Male cats are either orange or black (they have only one X chromosome), but cannot be bicolored or tricolored, ... Females can therefore have the unique mosaic patterns so prized by cat lovers.

In cats, eumelanin or pheomelanin production is not controlled by the MC1R receptor. Instead, it is in the hands of a locus (whose gene was, until now, unknown) called "orange".

Mike Klucznik wasn’t a cat person, until he met Billy. When the avid homebrewer moved in with his now-wife Sheila Mullen, her big orange-and-white feline companion would hang out with him for ...

Meet Quimera the 'Two-Faced' Cat: ... expression of all the genes that are on the X chromosome will be ‘mosaic’ —that is, ... Here we are talking about the orange/black mosaicism, ...

If cats rule the web, then Venus the "Chimera Cat” might be queen of the Internet. The Internet sensation's half-black, half-orange face appears to be split straight down the middle, and her ...

Harmony, not hunting, for this dozing cat mural in West Town Mural shows would-be prey — birds and mice — resting with a cat. Done in 2023 by Pilsen artist Caesar Perez, the painting evokes ...

Venus the cat has captured attention recently, with pictures of her starkly divided face -- black with a gold eye on one side, orange with a blue eye on the other -- spreading like only cat ...

The result is a mosaic of pigment cells, ... "The mutation in orange cats seems to turn on Arghap36 expression in a cell type, the pigment cell, where it's not normally expressed." ...