{"id":215137,"date":"2025-05-31T05:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-purrfect-gene-study-shows-genetic-links-between-cat-purring-and-androgen-receptor-gene-variations"},"modified":"2025-05-31T05:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T10:14:08","slug":"the-purrfect-gene-study-shows-genetic-links-between-cat-purring-and-androgen-receptor-gene-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/the-purrfect-gene-study-shows-genetic-links-between-cat-purring-and-androgen-receptor-gene-variations","title":{"rendered":"The purrfect gene: Study shows genetic links between cat purring and androgen receptor gene variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-purrfect-gene-study-shows-genetic-links-between-cat-purring-and-androgen-receptor-gene-variations2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus is a familiar and comforting presence in our daily lives. Unlike most other feline species, cats exhibit sociality, can live in groups, and communicate both with other cats and humans, which is why they have been humans\u2019 trusted accomplices for millennia.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this intimacy, there is still much that we don\u2019t know about our feline friends. Numerous behavioral studies have been conducted on other mammal species, but relatively few on cats.<\/p>\n<p>In part to fill this gap, a team of researchers at the Wildlife Research Center of Kyoto University are investigating the genetic background of cats\u2019 behavioral traits. Specifically, they aim to understand the association between traits like purring and variation in the androgen receptor gene. Though the exact function of purring remains unclear, previous studies have indicated that it is beneficial for feline communication and survival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you are lucky enough to have a cat companion or must merely live this experience vicariously through cat videos, Felis catus is a familiar and comforting presence in our daily lives. Unlike most other feline species, cats exhibit sociality, can live in groups, and communicate both with other cats and humans, which is why [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}