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Browsing Tag

Felis

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The world’s fiercest small cat: Know about the rare and remarkable Black-footed cat |
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The world’s fiercest small cat: Know about the rare and remarkable Black-footed cat |

  • 22 October 2025
Among the dry grasslands and sandy deserts of southern Africa lives one of nature’s smallest yet most determined…
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Okamoto et al. found that male cats with short-type alleles show higher directed calls/vocalizations scores, whereas females with short-type alleles show higher stranger-directed aggression scores, than their respective counterparts with long-type alleles. Image credit: Natali Anderson.
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Scientists Identify Genetic Variants Associated with Increased Purring in Cats

  • 2 June 2025
Cats (Felis catus) are companions familiar to people worldwide. Despite their popularity, few studies have investigated the genetic…
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The sex-linked orange mutation in domestic cats causes variegated patches of reddish/yellow hair and is a defining signature of random X inactivation in female tortoiseshell and calico cats; unlike the situation for most coat color genes, there is no apparent homolog for sex-linked orange in other mammals; Kaelin et al. show that sex-linked orange is caused by a 5-kb deletion that leads to ectopic and melanocyte-specific expression of the Arhgap36 gene. Image credit: Kaelin et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.04.055.
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Researchers Identify Genetic Mutation Responsible for Orange Coat in Domestic Cats

  • 16 May 2025
This mutation is located in the Rho GTPase Activating Protein 36 (Arhgap36) gene and appears to occur in…
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