Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, ...

A music-loving cat in Croatia showed her appreciation for her owners’ talents recently, hopping onto a piano keyboard to ...

After 60 years of research, scientists have discovered the gene responsible for orange fur in cats, finding that it is linked ...

Calico cats also have a reputation for being temperamental ... Some calicos have blue, cream, red, brown, or tan. They are ...

Orange and tortoiseshell house cats (torties) have long been an enigma for hair coloration in mammals: now, the genetic basis ...

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

After 60 years of searching, geneticists have finally identified the gene behind the marmalade coloration in domestic cats.

A prime example of X inactivation is in the coat-color patterning of tortoiseshell or calico cats (Figure 1). In cats, the fur pigmentation gene is X-linked, and depending on which copy of the X ...

Most cats are non-orange, usually brown or grey tabbies with some pattern ... with some areas mostly orange or non-orange. Calico cats have distinct patches of orange and non-orange, in addition ...