Tortoiseshell cats have a brindling pattern (mixture) of orange and non-orange hairs throughout the coat, with some areas mostly orange or non-orange. Calico cats have distinct patches of orange ...

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The "tiny," one-pound kitten, named Cinder, is a "male tortoiseshell ... "tens of thousands of cat surgeries" throughout her career — and "only seen one other male calico and only a handful ...

A prime example of X inactivation is in the coat-color patterning of tortoiseshell or calico cats (Figure 1). In cats, the fur pigmentation gene is X-linked, and depending on which copy of the X ...

Like humans, cats with light or white coats are at an increased risk of developing sunburn-especially on their ears, eyelids, and nose. Unlike allegedly unlucky black cats, all-white cats symbolize ...

Conversely, calico or tortoiseshell cats are usually female – the female’s extra X chromosome allows the possibility of her receiving both a black and orange gene. 1. https://be.chewy.com ...