But what determines a cat's coat color? The answer lies in genetics, a.k.a. the complex interplay of inherited traits expressed in a feline's coat palette and pattern. Among these colorful cat ...

Any animal’s eye color is determined by its levels of two melanin pigments: eumelanin, which makes brown-black, and ...

I had the pleasure of visiting a relative who has a stunning, all-white cat named Lexi. She was just as sweet and gentle as ...

At the show, pedigreed cats compete for points to boost their national rankings. But Wichitans appreciate the show as an ...

Here's where things get interesting: female cats have an extra gene for fur color on that extra leg of their second X chromosome. When a cat is female, the gene for either black or orange fur will ...

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 ...