However, some descriptors of cats are not actual breeds. Both tortoiseshell and calico fall into this category. They are not ...

Cats come in a wide variety of colors and coat patterns. Some breeds are more immediately recognizable than others. Torbie ...

A team of Japanese scientists has discovered the gene that determines the fur color of calico cats, which are characterized ...

Though Olive does not have an eye problem, she squints her eye because the “cat eye language” she was taught as a kitten came ...

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 ...

It’s a question I’ve always wanted the answer to.” For decades, ginger, tortoiseshell, and calico cats have fascinated scientists. In most mammals, humans included, red hair is caused by ...

Every noticed how most orange cats are male, while females with some orange fur often have patchworks of different colors, such as the calico or tortoiseshell patterns. “It’s been a genetic my ...