It turns out that the answer was in what wasn’t there. “There was a huge chunk of sequence missing downstream from the KIT ...

“The actual hair coat of these cats are white at the roots, and the tips of each hair will be the cat’s primary colors, such as tabby, blue, black, red, cream, chocolate and so on.” ...

What color are your cats’ coats? From black to ginger to tortoiseshell, cats come in all sorts of different colors, but they’re all the same kitties we know and love. Now, however, a new cat ...

And domesticated cats of many coat colors and patterns bask in the sunlight of living rooms across the world. Scientists agree that hair follicle cells are the source of the black, brown, yellow ...

If there's a defining characteristic of a cat, it's the coat: the spectrum of colors, patterns and fur lengths that catch your eye when passing one on the street or ogling at one lounging on a ...

For example, from an article on The Cat Site, entitled, 'Cat Coat Colors and Patterns,' I learned that Tortoiseshell cats (those with a consistent mixture of orange and black), are almost always ...

A new type of cat coat color has officially been discovered. Named salmiak, or ‘salty liquorice,’ the cats have hair strands that start out black, and become white the further they grown from ...

What color are your cats’ coats? From black to ginger to tortoiseshell, cats come in all sorts of different colors, but they’re all the same kitties we know and love. Now, however, a new cat ...

The coat was first spotted in 2007, and in 2019, it was brought to the attention of a group of cat experts lead by feline geneticist Heidi Anderson.