"It's been a genetic mystery, a conundrum," Stanford University geneticist Greg Barsh told Sara Reardon at Science. Barsh and his colleagues discovered cat skin cells from which orange fur sprouts ...
STANFORD, Calif. — From Garfield to Puss in Boots, it’s safe to say that orange cats have a special place in the hearts of feline lovers everywhere. So, what exactly gives our furry friends their ...
Garfield, star of the eponymous comic strip created by Jim Davis in 1978, is, like many of the cats that roam our homes, orange. He is orange in the same way that some people are redheaded ...
Barsh and his colleagues discovered cat skin cells from which orange fur sprouts express 13 times as much RNA from a gene called Arhgap36, compared with skin cells from cats with no orange hair.
What do Garfield, Heathcliff and Puss in Boots have in common? They’re all cats, they’re all orange and they’re all males. This is no accident. As it turns out, most orange cats are male ...
The orange colour of some cats’ coats is thought to be owing to a genetic anomaly. (Moganraj Villavan @ FMT Lifestyle) The scientific community has long been at a loss to explain the genetic ...