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The mutation that gives male cats a ginger-colored coat and females ginger, tortoiseshell, or calico coats produced a particularly telling map. The orange mutant gene is found only on the X, or female, chromosome. As with humans, female cats have paired sex chromosomes, XX, and male cats have XY sex chromosomes.
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Cats and humans evolutionarily diverged from a common ancestor (boreoeutherian ancestor) approximately 80 million years ago, accumulating only 10–12 chromosomal translocations. [71] The order of eight genes on the cats' Y chromosome closely resembles that in humans. [72] Genes on X chromosomes of cats and humans are arranged in a similar way ...
The disorder leaves the cat with a full-size body, but disproportionately short and thick legs. Dwarf cats often suffer from spinal disorders, such as lordosis (excessive curvature of the spine) and pectus excavatum (hollowed chest). [7] As with human dwarfism, there are still a lot of unknown mysteries in the science behind feline dwarfism.
When a familiar human slow-blinks towards a cat, the cat tends to approach the human more frequently than if the human has a neutral expression that avoids eye contact. This behavior may share features with the "genuine" human smile that involves the corners of the eyes narrowing.
Orange, ginger, calico, and tortoiseshell cats seem to be more predisposed to developing these spots. Furthermore, the condition tends to occur more often in cats with light-colored or thin coats ...
Roughly 75% of ginger cats are male. [14] Male cats with the gene for orange can be either X°Y ginger or X-Y black or non-ginger tabby. Females with the gene have three possibilities: X-X- black or non-ginger tabby, X°X° ginger, and X-X° tortoiseshell, thus male cats cannot be tortoiseshell unless they have two X chromosomes. [14]
Researchers at Lund University in Sweden are now setting out to find out if a cat's voice is affected by its owner's. Do cats sound like their owners? New study to find if felines have humans' accents