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Secret of Orange Cats Finally Revealed After 60-Year Search - ScienceAlert
Publisher description: If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different.
NewsAPI | Oct 9, 2026 | Tessa Koumoundouros
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If you've ever lived with an orange cat, you already know they're built different. As long predicted, the mutated gene is located on the cat's X chromosome, explaining why the orange color appears so differently between the sexes. Most orange cats are male, while most female cats with some orange fur end up with patchworks of different colors. A calico kitten. (Theresa Donahue McManus/Moment/Getty Images)"Taken together, these observations provide strong genetic and genomic evidence that the 5 kb deletion causes sex-linked orange," Barsh and team write in their paper.
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