Experts have been able to figure out a lot about cat coat colors, but the orange coat, in particular, had left them with questions. That is, until recently. Researchers discovered the genetic ...

But this has failed to explain orange color patterns in cats. “It’s been a genetic mystery, a conundrum,” Barsh tells Science ’s Sara Reardon. Instead, the new studies point to a gene ...

The marked abundance of male orange cats had long led scientists to suspect the trait is sex-linked—more specifically, tied to a variation in the X chromosome.