Scientists have now uncovered why 80 per cent of domestic ginger cats are boys - and it is all to do with the Arhgap36 gene. This piece of DNA, also found in humans, usually controls the nervous ...

Demonstratively, ginger cats are much more likely to be male than female. The teams found that this is in part because of the ARHGAP36 gene, which is only carried over on the X chromosome.

Eight out of 10 ginger cats are male - and scientists have finally found out why. By SOPHIA STANFORD. Published: 15:37 EDT, 15 May 2025 | Updated: 15:37 EDT, 15 May 2025 ...

Scientists found that this pattern held true in 49 additional cats, including samples from an international cat genome database. However, until the discovery ARHGAP36 gene was thought to have no ...

One of the cats that Uncle Ong had been feeding for years in the Kallang industrial area was found badly injured one evening.

The "meow-tation" that gives ginger cats their distinct fur has been discovered. A small deletion in a gene on the X-chromosome lies behind the fiery coats of ginger tabbies and the splotchy ...

Still, he suspects the ginger cat stereotype is more about gender than genetics – most orange cats are male. “There are not many scientific studies of the personality of orange cats,” he noted.

The ginger gene for cats has finally been found and explains why 80 per cent are male.. For more than 100 years, scientists have suspected that the reason there are so many more male cats with ...

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