Orlando Science Center is now home to a baby red-rumped agouti, an animal recently born inside the “Life” exhibit at the Loch Haven Park museum. The late July arrival was both a surprise and part of a ...

The agouti ain’t no sewer rat: It’s actually a pivotal part of the rainforest ecosystem. Like a weird-looking squirrel, really. only without those obnoxious, oversized ears. You're trying too hard, ...

C57BL/6 is one of the best characterized inbred strains of mice and is the reference strain for the mouse genome sequence 1. However, genetic manipulation of the mouse genome is carried out ...

Back in 2000, Randy Jirtle, a professor of radiation oncology at Duke University, and his postdoctoral student Robert Waterland designed a groundbreaking genetic experiment that was simplicity itself.

Climate change is rapidly altering our environment—and posing major challenges for many animal species. Whether they can ...

Yesterday, shortly after 7 p.m., a male agouti escaped from his outdoor enclosure behind the Small Mammal House at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. Agoutis are large beautiful rodents about the size of ...

A male agouti made a brief escape from the National Zoo Monday night. Zoo officials say "Macadamia" escaped from his outdoor enclosure behind the Small Mammal House just after 7 p.m. The crafty rodent ...

The role of the central melanocortin system in the development of obesity has been extensively studied. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within several candidate genes have been associated with ...

Feed adult mothers a methyl-rich or genistein-rich diet, and DNA methylation lowers expression of the agouti gene in their offspring, shifting their coat color away from the classic agouti yellow and ...

Echinococcus oligarthrus hydatid cyst disease was diagnosed in two imported wild-caught Brazilian agouti (Dasyprocta leporina). The cysts were found incidentally during routine examinations and never ...

BRIDGEPORT — A family visiting Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport got a bit of a scare Sunday afternoon when their little girl was bitten on the finger by a red-rumped agouti. Zoo spokesperson ...