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Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search

bookofjoe

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  • kens
    I thought this seemed familiar; it's a rehash of a 2024 discovery: https://www.science.org/content/article/gene-behind-orange-f...
  • dayyan
    The article says there's no evidence of the gene being responsible for behavior.Which means it's inconclusive if the gene is responsible for behavior.But, collectively we know it may be.
  • bookofjoe
  • stuaxo
    Wait, do people in the US really call them "orange cats" - I just thought that was a reddit / internet thing.In the UK these are ginger cats.
  • thesebas
  • throwitaway222
  • PowerElectronix
    It's extremely interesting that the genes that regulate this are non-protein coding. More light shed on the actual functionality of "junk" DNA, even if it's for cats.
  • amelius
    Fun fact: people with red hair have more fear for dentists:https://www.dentistryiq.com/dentistry/article/55260898/redhe...
  • codesnik
    I wonder why there's no even a trace of "orange cats are goofy" stereotype in Russia and neighboring countries, as far as I know.
  • sleepybrett
    Still no way to track the one neuron that they all share.
  • jdw64
    So in the US, they call them orange cats. In Korea, we call them 'cheese tabbies' or 'cheese nyang(kitten).' Someday, when I leave this place, I'd like to get a cat. I really like the ones with broad faces. But right now, I can barely even take care of myself
  • lstodd
    Now we need a paper about how black cats are secretly red and tabby.(and you can see it on them in bright sunshine, perfect black cats are not, they exhibit both stripes and reddishness)
  • quotemstr
    Missed headline opportunity: "60-year orange cat itch finally scratched"
  • bitwize
    They finally proved that the brain cells of all orange cats are a single brain cell in a quantum state of superposition between all of them? Erwin Schrödinger would be proud.
  • optimalsolver
    Do orange cats know they’re orange?
  • MichaelZuo
    “ Arhgap36 is known to cause developmental problems in other animals when it is over- or under-functioning. But it seems that in orange cats, the gene is overexpressed only in developing and mature pigment cells called melanocytes.”This doesn’t make sense… if thousands of anecdotal reports in cats specifically report otherwise? And if it’s known to not be limited to melanocytes in other mammalian species?
  • yoonge2
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  • TurkishPoptart
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  • ourmandave
    60 years of dissecting fluffy orange kittens is a lot of fluffy orange kittens. =(